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Chapter 5. Convection
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Chapter 1. Overview
Chapter 2. Radiation
Chapter 3. Turbulent diffusion and interactions with the surface
Chapter 4. Subgrid-scale orographic drag
Chapter 5. Convection
Chapter 6. Clouds and large-scale precipitation
Chapter 7. Land suface parametrization
Chapter 8. Methane oxidation
Chapter 9. Climatological data
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5.7 Link to cloud scheme
Before the introduction of the prognostic cloud scheme (see Chapter 6 `Clouds and large-scale precipitation' ) water detrained from convection (
) was evaporated
instantaneously. However with the prognostic cloud scheme water detrained
from convection is taken to be a source of cloud mass increasing the cloud
fraction and water content of clouds;
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(5.45) |
where
is the cloud fraction and 
the grid-box
mean cloud water.Next Section
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