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EDITORIAL
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Turbulent Fluxes of Liquid Water and Buoyancy in Partly Cloudy Layers
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A simple convective mass flux model is used to derive expressions for the fluxes of liquid water and buoyancy in partly cloudy turbulent layers. The results differ radically from those suggested in some previous studies. ...
Conditional Instability of the First Kind Upside-Down
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: It is shown that entrainment leads to the generation of turbulence kinetic energy in a stratocumulus layer when the virtual temperature jump at the cloud top is weaker than a critical value. The critical value increases ...
Entrainment into a Stratocumulus Layer with Distributed Radiative Cooling
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: It is shown that the radiative cooling of a cloud layer strongly influences the turbulent flux profiles and the entrainment rate, and that the radiative cooling should be modeled as acting inside the turbulent layer. ...
Geostrophic Adjustment and the Finite-Difference Shallow-Water Equations
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Numerical simulation of geostrophic adjustment in shallow water is discussed for the case of an unstaggered grid for vorticity, divergence, and mass. The dispersion equation is shown to be very well behaved and superior ...
Buoyant Production and Consumption of Turbulence Kinetic Energy in Cloud-Topped Mixed Layers
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Entrainment closure theories for mixed-layer models entail assumptions about how the net rate of buoyant production of turbulence kinetic energy is partitioned into gross production and consumption. Three alternative ...
High-Resolution Simulation of Shallow-to-Deep Convection Transition over Land
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Results are presented from a high-resolution three-dimensional simulation of shallow-to-deep convection transition based on idealization of observations made during the Large-Scale Biosphere?Atmosphere (LBA) experiment in ...
EDITORIAL
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
A University Perspective on Global Climate Modeling
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Global atmospheric models are proliferating, in part because of the widespread availability of powerful computers. There are about two dozen global modeling groups at work in the United States today. These groups are put ...