Experiments with Lilly's Cloud-Topped Mixed Layer Model
- 1 March 1976
- journal article
- Published by American Meteorological Society in Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
- Vol. 33 (3) , 436-446
- https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0469(1976)033<0436:ewlctm>2.0.co;2
Abstract
Lilly's model of a horizontally homogeneous cloud-topped mixed layer is studied. The model is closed by taking a weighted (weighting factor or entrainment parameter k) average of Lilly's maximum and minimum entrainment cases. The dependence of steady-state solutions on large-scale divergence, sea surface temperature and entrainment parameter k is investigated. By numerical integration the response of the mixed layer to a diurnally varying radiative flux is investigated. Significant variations in the state of the mixed layer and in the convective fluxes are found.Keywords
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