Mode decomposition as a methodology for developing convective-scale representations in global models

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 131, Issue 610 B, 2005, Pages 2313-2336

  Yano, Jun Ichi ^a   Redelsperger, Jean Luc ^a   Bechtold, Peter ^b   Guichard, Françoise ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cloud resolving model; Cumulus parametrization; Mass flux; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

CLOUD RESOLVING MODEL; CUMULUS PARAMETERIZATION; MASS FLUX;

METEOROLOGY;

CONVECTION; CUMULUS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION;

EID: 27144542067     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.04.44     Document Type: Article

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