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Condensation Heating

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wallis

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Are there any microphysics/PBL modules that calculate or output the effects of condensation heating from shallow cumulus, either in terms of heat/energy or convective velocity (w*)?
Failing that, does anyone have any pointers as to how to calculate that from the output variables available?
 
The following two variables may be helpful for diagnosing the heating:

RTHSHTEN : THETA TENDENCY DUE TO SHALLOW CUMULUS SCHEME" "K s-1"
RQVSHTEN : "Q_V TENDENCY DUE TO SHALLOW CUMULUS SCHEME" "kg kg-1 s-1"
 
Thanks for that, can you elaborate a little more? I don't understand the units associated with these parameters, is this a rate of change?
 
Yes they are the change rates of potential temperature (delta theta/delt) and water vapor mixing ratio (delta qv/delt) caused by shallow convective process.
 
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