subcloud
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Noun[edit]
subcloud (plural subclouds)
- (meteorology) An atmospheric object smaller than a cloud
- 2016, Ravi Shekhar, William R. Boos, “Improving Energy-Based Estimates of Monsoon Location in the Presence of Proximal Deserts”, in arXiv[1]:
- CQE theories that diagnose ITCZ location based on the subcloud moist static energy maximum are shown to have large biases; accounting for convective entrainment of dry air by using a lower-tropospheric mean moist static energy provides a more correct diagnosis of ITCZ location.