Sentences with phrase «deep cumulonimbus»
This is a large - eddy simulation of a deep cumulonimbus (a tall rain cloud).
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The region of greatest solar heating at the surface in the humid tropics corresponds to areas of deep cumulonimbus convection.
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The typical enhancement of rainfall and updraft motion in deep cumulus and cumulonimbus clouds within heavy raining meso - scale disturbance areas acts to increase the return flow mass subsidence in the surrounding broader clear and partly cloudy regions (Figure 8).
The observations showed that when the usual shallow cumulus clouds give way to the MJO's towering cumulonimbus storms, radiant heat trapped by clouds and moisture gradually warms a deeper column of the lower atmosphere while the tops of the storms radiate heat into space, cooling the upper troposphere.
The warm water evaporates from the ocean surface, and the light, warm and humid air rises, leading to deep convection in the form of towering cumulonimbus clouds and heavy precipitation.