Cloud transitions and decoupling in shear-free stratocumulus-topped boundary layers
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Cloud transitions and decoupling in shear-free stratocumulus-topped boundary layers
Large-eddy simulations of shear-free stratocumulus-topped layers tend strongly toward a two-layer structure as the negative area in the buoyancy flux profile that would be necessary to maintain a mixed layer increases to more than 10% of the positive area. In addition to identifying a threshold for what amounts to a convective transition, the simulations provide further evidence that a commonly...
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عنوان ژورنال: Geophysical Research Letters
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0094-8276
DOI: 10.1029/1999gl011257