Field Verification of the Relationship Between Entrainment Rate and Cumulus Cloud Diameter

摘要: Abstract This research is concerned with the verification of an expression which relates entrainment rate in a cumulus cloud to diameter that cloud, where defined as fractional increase mass due mixing environment, per unit height. A series airplane penetrations relatively small clouds, conducted during summer 1971, was used data base for making Stommel calculations. When stratification 23 passes analyzed, strong inverse dependence on evident. For six were described vigorously growing, well-defined, single isolated towers, relation even stronger, and could be expressed by E=0.3/R, E R radius; has correlation coefficient 0.85. There indication clouds studied best end result evolution starting plumes,...