A convective wake parameterization scheme for use in general circulation models

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 456-469

  Qian, Liying ^a   Young, George S ^a   Frank, William M ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; HEAT CONVECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); WAKES;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; PRECIPITATION DRIVEN DOWNDRAFTS; SURFACE FLUXES;

METEOROLOGY;

EID: 0031997406     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1998)126<0456:ACWPSF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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