Abstract
Abstract A two-dimensional version of the Pennsylvania State University mesoscale model has been applied to Winter Monsoon Experiment data in order to simulate the diurnally occurring convection observed over the South China Sea. The domain includes a representation of part of Borneo as well as the sea so that the model can simulate the initiation of convection. Also included in the model are parameterizations of mesoscale ice phase and moisture processes and longwave and shortwave radiation with a diurnal cycle. This allows use of the model to test the relative importance of various heating mechanisms to the stratiform cloud deck, which typically occupies several hundred kilometers of the domain. Frank and Cohen's cumulus parameterization scheme is employed to represent vital unresolved vertical transports in the convective area. The major conclusions are: Ice phase processes are important in determining the level of maximum large-scale heating and vertical motion because there is a strong anvil componen...
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Mesoscale meteorologyClimatologyMonsoonConvectionDeep convectionGeologyAtmospheric sciencesMesoscale convective systemMeteorologyAtmospheric convectionEnvironmental scienceTropospherePhysics
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Jimy Dudhia
(1989).
Numerical Study of Convection Observed during the Winter Monsoon Experiment Using a Mesoscale Two-Dimensional Model.
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
, 46
(20)
, 3077-3107.
https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0469(1989)046<3077:nsocod>2.0.co;2
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- 10.1175/1520-0469(1989)046<3077:nsocod>2.0.co;2