The impact of dimensionality on long-term cloud-resolving model simulations

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 128, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1521-1535

  Tompkins, A M ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD; CONVECTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 0033926625     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2000)128<1521:TIODOL>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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