Simulating the transition from drizzling marine stratocumulus to boundary layer cumulus with a mesoscale model

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 131, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2342-2360

  Mechem, David B ^a   Kogan, Yefim L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; COASTAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METEOROLOGY;

LARGE EDDY SIMULATION (LES);

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; BOUNDARY LAYER; CUMULUS; DIURNAL VARIATION; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; STRATOCUMULUS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0242415376     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2003)131<2342:STTFDM>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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