Mutual Adjustment of Mass Flux and Stratification Profiles

摘要: Observations indicate that deep convective heating profiles tend to oppose temperature perturbations in the environment. As a result, convection adjusts stratification toward preferred moist adiabat. A buoyancy-sorting model of precipitating convection, coupled with linearized hydrostatic dry dynamics model, illustrates processes at work. The established by depends on treatment precipitation and ice processes, especially poorly-understood determine mass flux downdrafts associated evaporation precipitation. These results suggest observations mean convecting regions may contain useful, highly averaged information hard-to-observe bulk parameters characterizing ensemble real clouds. Temperature < 1 C are quite important this suggesting such should be scrutinized precision.