Cloud-resolving modeling of cloud systems during phase III of GATE. Part II: Effects of resolution and the third spatial dimension

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 21, 1998, Pages 3264-3282

  Grabowski, Wojciech W ^a   Wu, Xiaoqing ^a   Moncrieff, Mitchell W ^a   Hall, William D ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT FLUX; HEAT RADIATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); THERMODYNAMICS; TROPOSPHERE;

CLOUD RESOLVING MODELING;

CLOUDS;

CLOUD CLASSIFICATION; MODELING; PARAMETERIZATION;

EID: 0033232461     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1998)055<3264:CRMOCS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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