Mesoanalysis of the Interactions of Precipitating Convection and the Boundary Layer

The Oklahoma Mesonet surface wind data and the Arkansas Basin River Forecast Center (ABRFC) gridded hourly precipitation data from May to August, 1997, were used to demonstrate and evaluate a new method for refering he area-averaged near-cloud-base updraft and downdraft mass fluxes from statistic...

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Main Authors: Ruiyu Sun, Steven K. Krueger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2012-04-01
Series:Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
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Online Access:http://www.agu.org/journals/ms/review/2011MS000096/