Sentences with phrase «cumulus convection»
Cumulus convection refers to the process of warm air rising from the Earth's surface and forming large, fluffy cloud formations called cumulus clouds. Full definition
Mahoney K. M. (November 2016): The representation of cumulus convection in high - resolution simulations of the 2013 Colorado Front Range Flood.
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In - depth analysis reveals that the model's shallow cumulus convection scheme tends to significantly under - produce clouds during the times when shallow cumuli exist in the observations, while the deep convective and stratiform cloud schemes significantly over-produce low - level clouds throughout the day.
In the baseline simulations, cumulus convection arose an hour into the exercise and generated clouds that very much resembled in appearance at least those photographed during INDOEX.
Bony, S., and K.A. Emanuel, 2001: A parameterization of the cloudiness associated with cumulus convection: Evaluation using TOGA COARE data.
They assume some ways of self - organization of cumulus convection which may or may not be true.
My understanding which had not been updated since 1980s was that El Nino suppresses cumulus convection in the Western Pacific and thus suppresses TCs there as well.
Whether the activity of TCs (TC - scale dynamics and cumulus convection together) is determined by the global climatic condition (SST, atmospheric composition and general circulation).
Yamasaki, M., 1975: A Numerical Experiment of the Interaction Between Cumulus Convection and Large - scale Motion.
Stevens, D.E., A.S. Ackerman, and C.S. Bretherton, 2002: Effects of domain size and numerical resolution on the simulation of shallow cumulus convection.
``... CGCS researchers have constructed a new and significantly improved representation of cumulus convection.
Whether the activity of cumulus convection is determined by the variables averaged over the grid box of numerical models (100 km scale for typical GCMs, 20 km scale in the case of «high resolution» GCM of MRI).
The largest - scale feature is the Hadley circulation whose upward branch is none other than the collective activity of cumulus convection.
This should only vary in time for situations were the time period is too short for the timescales of, say, cumulus convection (weeks) or for ~ very ~ slow feedbacks like CO2 outgassing.
Using a full factorial design, three schemes were changed in the MPE: vertical diffusion, cloud microphysics, and cumulus convection.