A new convective cloud field model based on principles of self-organisation

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2749-2759

  Nober, F J ^a   Graf, H F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; CUMULUS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION;

EID: 27844512919     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-5-2749-2005     Document Type: Article

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