Toward stochastic deep convective parameterization in general circulation models

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Lin, Johnny Wei Bing ^a   David Neelin, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; HEAT CONVECTION; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RANDOM PROCESSES; PARAMETERIZATION; POTENTIAL ENERGY; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

PARAMETERIZATION; CONVECTIVE AVAILABLE POTENTIAL ENERGIES; CONVECTIVE PARAMETERIZATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SMALL SCALE VARIABILITY; SMALL-SCALE PROCESS; SPATIAL PATTERNS; STOCHASTIC COMPONENT; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

CONVECTION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 0038504829     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016203     Document Type: Article

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