Cloud-Top Entrainment in Stratocumulus Clouds

DOI10.1146/ANNUREV-FLUID-010816-060231zbMath1359.76115OpenAlexW2471933548MaRDI QIDQ2974725

Juan Pedro Mellado

Publication date: 10 April 2017

Published in: Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-fluid-010816-060231

zbMATH Keywords

mixingatmospheric turbulencecloud physicsmoist convection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10) Turbulent boundary layers (76F40) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to fluid mechanics (76-02) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20)

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