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We review bulk representations of tropical and subtropical maritime atmospheric boundary layers. Three types of bulk representations are studied in detail: stratocumulus topped mixed layers, trade-wind layers, and sub-cloud mixed layers. Through the development of a consistent description of these disparate regimes, connections among their varied representations are emphasized, as well as their relation to regions of deeper convection. New results relating to the equilibrium mass flux and cloud fraction in the trade winds; the ability of bulk models to represent qualitatively major cloud regimes; and the relationship amongst different bulk representations of the surface layer are presented. Throughout we emphasize the identification of consistent and physically based mixing and cloud regime rules for use in intermediate complexity models of the tropical climate, which in turn can be used to study cloud and dynamical interactions on larger scales.

Bulk boundary-layer concepts for simplified models of tropical dynamics