Abstract: lthough the steady, entraining, updraft plume is widely taken as the foundational concept of cumulus convection, past studies show that convection is typically dominated by thermals that are transient, more isotropic in ...

Abstract: Increasing greenhouse gas concentrations warm the troposphere. However, it is not clear whether this implies changes in the energetics. To study the energetics responses to CO2 increases, changes in the Lorenz energy cycle ...

Abstract: he warming pattern due to higher greenhouse gas concentrations is expected to affect the global atmospheric energetics mainly via changes in the (i) meridional temperature gradient and (ii) mean static stability. Changes ...

Abstract: n numerical simulations of growing congestus clouds, the maximum upward velocities w typically occur in compact toroidal vortices or thermals. These maxima were tracked, and the momentum budget was analyzed within spherical ...

Abstract: his paper presents an estimate of the oceanic Lorenz energy cycle derived from a simulation forced by 6-hourly fluxes obtained from NCEP?NCAR reanalysis-1. The total rate of energy generation amounts to 6.6 TW, of which ...