Statistical Analyses of Satellite Cloud Object Data from CERES. Part IV:...

Journal of Climate;  April 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......convergence zone (ITCZ), while boundary layer clouds form predominantly in the...formation of stratiform boundary layer clouds is the cold ocean water...the predominant type of boundary layer clouds. Generally speaking, stratocumulus...

Organization and representation of boundary layer clouds

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  March 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......that the preferred mode for boundary layer clouds is either small cumuli or...demonstration of the fact that boundary layer clouds, that is, shallow nonprecipitating...are utilized to represent boundary-layer clouds in mesoscale and large-scale...

Regional Model Simulations of Marine Boundary Layer Clouds over the...

Monthly Weather Review;  November 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......simulation of boundary layer stratocumulus...features of the boundary layer in the region...well-mixed marine boundary layer, a capping temperature...clouds, and the boundary layer regime transition...clouds while the boundary layer structure ...

Large-Scale Atmospheric Forcing by Southeast Pacific Boundary Layer...

Journal of Climate;  April 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......the radiative effect of boundary layer clouds over the southeast Pacific...Pacific artificially removed, boundary layer clouds south of the equator almost...layer, helping to maintain boundary layer clouds and temperature inversion...

Parameterization of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society;  April 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......atmospheric boundary layer, which mediates...atmosphere. Several boundary layer processes are...feedbacks between boundary layer clouds and climate...advances, the boundary layer is still not...atmospheric boundary layer is a complex...discussed. ...

A PDF-based model for boundary layer clouds. Part I: Method and model...

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  December 15, 2002 ;     700+ words ......single-column model. 1. Introduction Boundary layer clouds play an important role in...regimes. With this approach, boundary layer clouds are first classified into...parameterization used for boundary layer clouds includes higher-order turbulence...

Linking boundary layer circulations and surface processes during FIFE 89....

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  April 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......evapotranspiration. After the rains subsided, the boundary layer recovery process began with vigorous...only 30%-35% went directly into boundary layer heating. As the near-surface soil...became more important in influencing boundary layer energetics. The boundary layer ...

The flatland boundary layer experiments

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society;  March 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......least well-understood phenomena in boundary layer meteorology. It is also very important...the dynamics and chemistry of the boundary layer. Measurements of the entrainment...of heat and moisture through the boundary layer top (the entrainment fluxes) and...incorporated into the ...

Boundary layer development over a tropical island during the maritime...

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  August 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......December 1995) have been used to analyze boundary layer development and circulations over two...every day of the field campaign. The boundary layer depth, temperature, and circulation...measurements. On average, the island boundary layer depth reaches 1.5 km by early to ...

Formulation of turbulent fluxes in the stable boundary layer

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  October 15, 2003 ;     700+ words ......generalized version includes a dependence on boundary layer depth, which approaches the usual boundary layer height dependence for neutral conditions...many of the observational cases, a boundary layer did not exist in the usual sense, in...

Mesoscale fluctuations in scalars generated by boundary layer convection

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  March 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......simulations of the penetrating dry convective boundary layer (microscale convection). The simulated...horizontal size being roughly 16 times the boundary layer depth. It turns out that both the turbulent...originates from a scale of the order of the boundary layer height. ...

The Boundary Layer Winds in Hurricanes Danielle (1998) and Isabel (2003)

Monthly Weather Review;  August 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......This paper describes the boundary layer wind structure and dynamics...flow by a three-dimensional boundary layer model produced by Kepert...show that the hurricane boundary layer has a complex three-dimensional...

Analysis of mesoscale linear features observed in the Artic atmospheric...

Monthly Weather Review;  September 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......shallow (z^sub i^ == 150 m) atmospheric boundary layer is documented. These were observed...within and above the arctic atmospheric boundary layer. These aircraft data also exhibit smaller-sca...circulations with scales of 3-8 times the boundary layer depth. Based on analysis of our ...

A New Parameterization for Shallow Cumulus Convection and Its Application...

Monthly Weather Review;  April 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......cloud-topped marine boundary layers is investigated...with four planetary boundary layer (PBL) parameterizations...parameterizations of boundary layer turbulence and shallow...another subtropical boundary layer cloud regime. 1. Introduction Marine boundary layer ...

Characterization of the Cloud-Topped Boundary Layer at the Synoptic Scale...

Journal of Applied Meteorology;  December 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......the atmospheric boundary layer. A statistical...to evaluate the boundary layer cloud-top temperature...to represent a boundary layer global characterization...established that boundary layer clouds play an important...representation of boundary ...