The behaviour of large-scale model cloud schemes under idealized forcing scenarios

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 129, Issue 589 PART C, 2003, Pages 967-986

  Wilson, Damian ^a   Gregory, David ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clouds; Parametrization; Prognostic treatment

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; COOLING; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

GRID BOXES;

METEOROLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; NUMERICAL METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION;

EID: 0037261402     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.02.74     Document Type: Article

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