Episodic mixing and buoyancy-sorting representations of shallow cumulus convection

This dissertation combines a diagnostic study, a numerical simulation and a theory of cumulus mixing to investigate shallow cumulus convection and its representation in large-scale models. The objective is to facilitate the development of a cumulus parameterization scheme and also to improve our und...

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Main Author: Zhao, Ming
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/14992