The effects of subgrid model mixing and numerical filtering in simulations of mesoscale cloud systems

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 131, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 2085-2101

  Takemi, Tetsuya ^a,b   Rotunno, Richard ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAMPING; EDDY CURRENTS;

NUMERICAL FILTER;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLOUD; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MIXING; NUMERICAL MODEL; SIMULATION; SQUALL LINE;

EID: 0141975276     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2003)131<2085:TEOSMM>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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