Flow over heated terrain. Part II: Generation of convective precipitation

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 133, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2565-2582

  Tucker, Donna F ^a   Crook, N Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT CONVECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPEED; THUNDERSTORMS; WIND;

CONVECTIVE PRECIPITATION; NONHYDROSTATIC MODEL; WIND SPEED;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CONVECTION; HEAT FLUX; NUMERICAL MODEL; THUNDERSTORM;

EID: 27144491407     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR2965.1     Document Type: Article

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