Parameterizing convective organization

Lateral mixing parameters in buoyancy-driven deep convection schemes are among the most sensitive and important unknowns in atmosphere models. Unfortunately, there is not a true optimum value for plume mixing rate, but rather a dilemma or tradeoff: Excessive dilution of updrafts leads to unstable st...

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Main Authors: Brian Earle Mapes, Richard Brian Neale
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2011-06-01
Series:Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
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Online Access:http://james.agu.org/index.php/JAMES/article/view/v3n6