Abstract
Heat and moisture budgets associated with a midlatitude convective system are used to evaluate several versions of Kuo- type cumulus parameterization schemes on a semiprognostic basis. It is shown that the observed rainfall rate is closely related to the large-scale vertical advection of moisture and to a lesser extent to the large-scale moisture convergence. Both the Kuo and the Anthes schemes show considerable skill in reproducing the convective heating profile when a moist adiabat is used to represent the cloud thermodynamic properties and the effect of eddy sensible heat flux is estimated by a steady-state cloud model. -from Authors
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1498-1509 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | Monthly Weather Review |
| Volume | 112 |
| Issue number | 8 |
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| State | Published - 1984 |