Usefulness of Liquid-Water Potential Temperature in a Shallow-Cloud Model
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- 1 January 1976
- journal article
- Published by American Meteorological Society in Journal of Applied Meteorology
- Vol. 15 (1) , 98-102
- https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0450(1976)015<0098:uolwpt>2.0.co;2
Abstract
The advantages of using Betts' (1973) liquid-water potential temperature (θl) and also a total moisture variable (qw) within a shallow-cloud numerical model are enumerated. The saturation condition is parameterized as a function of these two variables and pressure, and the subgrid-scale buoyancy flux is expressed in terms of the subgrid-scale vertical fluxes of θl and qw.Keywords
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