Wc. Chao et Lt. Deng, ON THE ROLE OF WIND-INDUCED SURFACE HEAT-EXCHANGE IN A 2-DIMENSIONAL MODEL OF SUPER CLOUD CLUSTERS, JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES, 101(D12), 1996, pp. 16931-16937
Experiments with a two-dimensional model of Chao and Lin [1994] are co
nducted to investigate the role of WISHE (wind-induced surface heat ex
change) in the super cloud clusters. It is found that while WISHE as a
n instability mechanism is not responsible for the existence of the su
per cloud clusters, the process of surface fluxes being enhanced by su
rface wind has the important roles of prolonging the life span of the
cloud clusters and making the super cloud clusters more robust. WISHE
is also found not responsible for upstream propagation of the super cl
oud cluster. The latter is explained by the cloud cluster teleinductio
n mechanism proposed by Chao and Lin [1994].