A new cloud physics parameterization in a large-eddy simulation model of marine stratocumulus

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 229-243

  Khairoutdinov, Marat ^a   Kogan, Yefim ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; STRATOCUMULUS;

EID: 0034027431     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2000)128<0229:ANCPPI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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