Abstract: The differential absorption and emission of radiation with height inside clouds creates sources and sinks of buoyancy and thus can be an important factor in the turbulence-maintaining and dissipating processes of the clouds. ...

Abstract: The entrainment closure for the turbulence energy budgetcommonly used in unsaturated mixed layer models is re-derivedfrom the perspective of potential energy changes, and it isconcluded that the correct physical interpretation ...

Abstract: Research aircraft measurements of a well-developed marine stratocumulus cloud-topped boundary layer, made in June 1981 off the coast of California, are analyzed using the saturation point method developed by Betts. Estimates ...

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Abstract: Results from an analysis of 11 years of the AMS Employment Announcements newsletter are discussed. The strongest signals in the record of various job categories are the annual cycle in advertisements of tenure-track faculty ...

Abstract: Changes in propagation of free linear waves on the equatorial ?-plane associated with air-sea heat exchange are in investigated here. By using a mixed-layer model, with the waves considered as perturbations on a specified ...

Abstract: Extratropical cyclogenesis occurs off the coast of China, over the East China Sea and surrounding areas, as a result of cold-air outbreaks from the mainland about every five days, on the average, during winter months. Many ...

Abstract: The mixed-layer stratocumulus model first developed by Lilly is extended to include liquid-water-dependent solar optical properties and infrared radiative fluxes. The ocean-surface heat budget under these clouds is discussed ...

Abstract: The vertical structure of radiative flux profiles within clouds can have a significant impact on the thermodynamic processes that maintain and dissipate the clouds, particularly in the case of marine stratus and stratocumulus. ...

Abstract: The westward propagation of equatorial sea surface temperature anomalies exceeds the surface drift velocity and is probably associated with propagating changes in the depth of the surface mixed layer and upper thermocline. ...