A Modeling Study of the Cloud-Topped Marine Boundary Layer

A Modeling Study of the Cloud-Topped Marine Boundary Layer PDF Author: Thomas A. Guinn
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Category : Boundary layer (Meteorology)
Languages : en
Pages : 63

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Book Description
A coupled convective-radiative, boundary-layer model of marine stratocumulus clouds is presented. The model, which slightly generalized Lilly's (1968) cloud-topped mixed-layer model, has as dependent variables the cloud-top height, the cloud-base height, mixed-layer equivalent potential temperature and total water mixing ratio, the turbulent fluxes of equivalent potential temperature, total water mixing ratio, and virtual potential temperature, the cloud-top jumps of equivalent potential temperature and total water mixing ratio, the cloud-top temperature, and the net radiative flux divergence at cloud top and in the mixed layer. Keywords: Stratosphere. (EG).