Implementation of the cloud prediction scheme in the Eta Model at NCEP

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 12, Issue 3 PART II, 1997, Pages 697-712

  Zhao, Qingyun ^a,b   Black, Thomas L ^b   Baldwin, Michael E ^a  

^a GENERAL SCIENCES CORPORATION   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CLOUDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAIN; SNOW;

CLOUD PREDICTION METHOD; ETA MODEL;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLOUD PREDICTION SCHEME; ETA MODEL; NCEP; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0031225097     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1997)012<0697:iotcps>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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