The 13-14 December 2001 IMPROVE-2 event. Part II: Comparisons of MM5 model simulations of clouds and precipitation with observations

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 62, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 3520-3534

  Garvert, Matthew F ^a   Woods, Christopher P ^a   Colle, Brian A ^b   Mass, Clifford F ^a   Hobbs, Peter V ^a   Stoelinga, Mark T ^a   Wolfe, Justin B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SNOW; VAPOR DEPOSITION;

CLOUD MICROPHYSICAL PARAMETERS; DEPOSITIONAL GROWTH; QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION FORECAST;

METEOROLOGY;

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD WATER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

CASCADE RANGE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 27744554400     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS3551.1     Document Type: Article

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