A study of convection initiation in a mesoscale model using high-resolution land surface initial conditions

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 132, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2954-2976

  Trier, Stanley B ^a   Chen, Fei ^a   Manning, Kevin W ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; SOILS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; VAPORS;

DATA ASSIMILATION; GRADIENT ZONES; LAND SURFACE MODELS (LSM); PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS (PBL);

NATURAL CONVECTION;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; BOUNDARY LAYER; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MOISTURE FLUX; NUMERICAL MODEL; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX;

EID: 11844294089     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR2839.1     Document Type: Article

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