Response of tradewind cumuli to large-scale processes.

Abstract

The 2-dimensional slab-symmetric numerical cloud model for studying the evolution of an isolated cumulus cloud is extended to investigate the statistical properties of cumulus clouds which would be generated under a given large-scale forcing composed of the horizontal advection of temperature and water vapor mixing ratio, vertical velocity, sea surface temperature and radiative cooling. The model is applied to a case of suppressed weather conditions during BOMEX for the period 22-23 June 1969 when a nearly steady state prevailed. -from Authors