A Simple Model of a Convectively Coupled Walker Circulation Using the Weak Temperature Gradient Approximation

By Chris Bretherton, A. Sobel. 2002

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

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In Atmospheric Science

1. D. Frierson
2. E. Maloney
3. A. Sobel
4. Sandrine Bony
5. J. Dufresne
6. G. Bellon
7. Andrew J. Majda
8. Tapio Schneider

In Global and Planetary Change

1. D. Frierson
2. E. Maloney
3. A. Sobel
4. Sandrine Bony
5. J. Dufresne
6. G. Bellon
7. Andrew J. Majda
8. Tapio Schneider

Citations in the corpus

• Intraseasonal Variability in an Aquaplanet General Circulation Model (2010, background): “…water in the model, the MJO in the QM simulation resembles a moisture mode with weakly positive gross moist stability, and an effective gross moist stability (including radiative feedbacks, [e.g., Bretherton and Sobel (2002), Su et al. (2003)] very close to zero, destabilized primarily by WISHE.”
• Narrowing of the ITCZ in a warming climate: Physical mechanisms (2016, background): “…[Bretherton and Sobel, 2002], the horizontal diffusivity of moisture [Sobel and Neelin, 2006], cloud-radiative and water vapor-radiative effects [Bretherton and Sobel, 2002; Voigt and Shaw, 2015; Harrop and Hartmann, 2016], and the skewness of the vertical velocity distribution [Pendergrass and…”
• Large Scale Dynamics of Precipitation Fronts in the Tropical Atmosphere: A Novel Relaxation Limit (2004, methodology): “[6] discusses the variation of the Walker cell with sea surface temperature gradients in a model similar to ours (essentially a 1-D version of the QTCM).”
• An Idealized Semi-Empirical Framework for Modeling the Madden–Julian Oscillation (2012, methodology): “If D were proportional to ›u/›x, as in idealized ‘‘mock Walker’’ models (e.g., Bretherton and Sobel 2002), we could simply integrate D to find û.”
• The Tropical Response to Extratropical Thermal Forcing in an Idealized GCM: The Importance of Radiative Feedbacks and Convective Parameterization (2009, unknown): “moist stability is smaller, theoretical work suggests a stronger and narrower precipitating region (Bretherton and Sobel 2002; Chou and Neelin 2004), slower CCEWs”
• The Transition to Strong Convection (2009, background): “The simplifying implications of convective QE have also been the basis of much tropical dynamical theory for the interaction of convective scales with the large scale (e.g., Emanuel et al. 1994; Neelin and Zeng 2000; Bretherton and Sobel 2002).”
• On dynamic and thermodynamic components of cloud changes (2004, background): “…to a change in large-scale motion or in temperature would help also to assess two-dimensional numerical experiments performed by climate models (Bretherton and Sobel 2002) or CRMs (Larson and Hartmann 2002) to investigate tropical radiative feedback processes involving interactions between…”
• Surface Fluxes and Tropical Intraseasonal Variability: a Reassessment (2008, background): “…increasing the proportionality coefficient, r, relating radiative anomalies to precipitation anomalies compared to that estimated from observations (Bretherton and Sobel 2002; Lin and Mapes 2004), arguing that the parameterized flux anomalies represented those in both radiative and wind-induced…”