期刊名称：Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
电子版ISSN：1942-2466
出版年度：2018
卷号：10
期号：9
页码：2163-2176
DOI：10.1029/2017MS001261
出版社：John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
摘要：The atmosphere can self‐organize into long‐lasting large‐scale overturning circulations over an ocean surface with uniform temperature. This phenomenon is referred to as convective self‐aggregation and has been argued to be important for tropical weather and climate systems. Here we present a boundary layer centric framework based on the available potential energy budget of convective self‐aggregation. We show that boundary layer diabatic processes dominate the available potential energy production and are, therefore, essential to convective self‐aggregation. We further show that the enhanced virtual effect of water vapor can lead to convective self‐aggregation.
关键词：convective self‐aggregation;the weak buoyancy gradient approximation;available potential energy;the virtual effect of water vapor;boundary layer
