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Role of Convective Entrainment in Spatial Distributions of and Temporal Variations in Precipitation over Tropical Oceans
Description: The authors of this journal paper demonstrate that an appropriate treatment of convective entrainment is essential for determining spatial distributions of and temporal variations in precipitation. Four numerical experiments are performed using atmospheric models with different entrainment characteristics: a control experiment (Ctl), a no-entrainment experiment (NoEnt), an original Arakawa-Schubert experiment (AS), and an AS experiment with a simple empirical suppression of convection depending on cloud-layer humidity (ASRH). [Source: Journal of Climate]
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00701.1
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Source: Journal of Climate
Publish Date: 12/1/2014
Reading Level: Expert
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