A prognostic cloud scheme for operational NWP models

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 125, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1931-1953

  Zhao, Qingyun ^a,c   Carr, Frederick H ^b  

^a General Machine Corp   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 0000417622     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1997)125<1931:APCSFO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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