Modeling of Cloud-top Entrainment

Abstract

Our long term goals are to understand the dynamics of atmospheric motions on scales of order 10 m - 10 km in sufficient detail to be able to provide a consistent subgrid scale turbulent closure for models across a range of scales, and to be able to utilize simulated variances as a measure of forecast predictability.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 1999
Accession Number
ADA630965

Entities

People

  • David C. Lewellen
  • W. S. Lewellen

Organizations

  • West Virginia University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Atmospheric Motion
  • Atmospheric Sciences
  • Boundaries
  • Boundary Layer
  • Buoyancy
  • Climate Change
  • Dynamics
  • Entrainment
  • Heat Energy
  • Heat Flux
  • High Resolution
  • Inversion
  • Lapse Rate
  • Layers
  • Temperature Gradients
  • West Virginia
  • Wind Shear

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers