Cloud resolving modelling of tropical cloud systems during Phase III of GATE. Part III: Effects of cloud microphysics

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 14, 1999, Pages 2384-2402

  Grabowski, Wojciech W ^a   Wu, Xiaoqing ^a   Moncrieff, Mitchell W ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; HEAT FLUX; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; HEAT FLUX; ICE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); RAIN; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD RESOLVING MODEL;

CLOUDS;

EID: 0032586524     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1999)056<2384:CRMOTC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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