A Modeling Study of the Cloud-Topped Marine Boundary Layer
Abstract
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.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1989
- Accession Number
- ADA218103
Entities
People
- Thomas A. Guinn
Organizations
- Air Force Institute of Technology