Implementation and validation of a condensation scheme in a nonhydrostatic mesoscale model

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 126, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1882-1905

  Sandvik, Anne Dagrun ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDENSATION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

EID: 0032431070     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1998)126<1882:IAVOAC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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