Development of a cirrus parameterization scheme: Performance studies in HIRLAM

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 127, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 470-485

  Zurovac Jevtić, Danče ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; DATA REDUCTION; DROP FORMATION; ICE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEATION; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

HIGH-RESOLUTION LIMITED AREA MODEL (HIRLAM);

CLOUDS;

CIRRUS; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; ICE CRYSTAL; MODELING; PARAMETERIZATION;

EID: 0032694913     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1999)127<0470:DOACPS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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