Slow Manifolds and Multiple Equilibria in Stratocumulus-Capped Boundary Layers

In marine stratocumulus-capped boundary layers under strong inversions, the timescale for thermodynamic adjustment is roughly a day, much shorter than the multiday timescale for inversion height adjustment. Slow-manifold analysis is introduced to exploit this timescale separation when boundary layer...

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Main Authors: Junya Uchida, Christopher Bretherton, Peter N Blossey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2010-12-01
Series:Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
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Online Access:http://james.agu.org/index.php/JAMES/article/view/v2n14