Influence of entrainment on the thermal stratification in simulations of radiative-convective equilibrium

Convective available potential energy (CAPE) is shown to increase rapidly with warming in simulations of radiative-convective equilibrium over a wide range of surface temperatures. The increase in CAPE implies a systematic deviation of the thermal stratification from moist adiabatic that is non-negl...

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Main Authors: Singh, Martin Simran, O'Gorman, Paul
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/85600
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1748-0816