Spatial and temporal scales of precipitating tropical cloud systems in satellite imagery and the NCAR CCM3

Journal of Climate

Volumn 16, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 3545-3559

  Wilcox, Eric M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL CONVECTION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CLOUD DETECTION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLOUD COVER; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; PARAMETERIZATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 0141804864     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2003)016<3545:SATSOP>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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