A validation survey of the ECMWF prognostic cloud scheme using LITE

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1417-1420

  Miller, S D ^a   Stephens, G L ^a   Beljaars, A C M ^b  

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLOUDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS; EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

GLOBAL CIRCULATION MODELS (GCM);

GEOPHYSICS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLOUD; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION;

GLOBAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL SCALE; MEDIUM RANGE; SPACE TECHNOLOGIES;

EID: 0033562194     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900263     Document Type: Article

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