Clausius-clapeyron scaling of CAPE from analytical solutions to RCE

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 73, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 3719-3737

  Romps, David M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

CAPE; Physical meteorology and climatology

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLOUDS; POTENTIAL ENERGY; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

CAPE; CONVECTIVE AVAILABLE POTENTIAL ENERGIES; HUMIDITY CHANGE; RADIATIVE-CONVECTIVE EQUILIBRIUM; RATE OF INCREASE; SPECIFIC HUMIDITY; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TROPICAL TEMPERATURES;

TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATOLOGY; HUMIDITY; METEOROLOGY; POTENTIAL ENERGY; STRATOSPHERE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPOPAUSE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84988353511     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-15-0327.1     Document Type: Article

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