Explicit simulation of cumulus ensembles with the GATE phase III data: Budgets of a composite easterly wave

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 127, Issue 575, 2001, Pages 1571-1591

  Xu, K M ^a   Randall, D A ^a  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud resolving simulations; Easterly waves; GATE convection

Indexed keywords

CONVECTION; CUMULUS; EASTERLY WAVE; STRATIFORM CLOUD;

EID: 0035389784     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/smsqj.57505     Document Type: Article

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