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Moisture modes with an oscillating vertical motion profile shape in steady-state weak temperature gradient simulations
  • Miguel Bernardez,
  • Larissa E Back
Miguel Bernardez
University of Wisconsin - Madison

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Larissa E Back
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Abstract

Weak Temperature Gradient (WTG) modeling using a small cloud-resolving model (CRM) admits multiple equilibria depending upon the initial model conditions. A new kind of equilibrium is presented here which undergoes a periodic and steady-state oscillation that is emergent from static boundary conditions. The periodic oscillation is shown to be a moisture mode with an oscillating vertical motion profile shape generated by the interaction between vertical motion and radiation. A simple two-mode model based on decomposing the vertical motion profile and associated radiative cooling variations can describe the oscillation.
15 Apr 2024Submitted to ESS Open Archive
16 Apr 2024Published in ESS Open Archive