Article
Reconciling and Validating the Cloud Thickness and Liquid Water Path Tendencies
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-1-2015
Disciplines
Abstract
A detailed derivation of stratocumulus cloud thickness and liquid water path tendencies as a function of the well-mixed boundary layer mass, heat, and moisture budget equations is presented. The derivation corrects an error in the cloud thickness tendency equation derived by R. Wood to make it consistent with the liquid water path tendency equation derived by J. J. van der Dussen et al. The validity of the tendency equations is then tested against the output of large-eddy simulations of a typical stratocumulus-topped boundary layer case and is found to be in good agreement.
DOI
10.1175/JAS-D-14-0287.1
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Citation Information
Mohamed S. Ghonima, Joel R. Norris, Thijs Heus and Jan Kleissl. "Reconciling and Validating the Cloud Thickness and Liquid Water Path Tendencies" Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences Vol. 72 Iss. 5 (2015) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/thijs-heus/16/