Intercomparison of bulk cloud microphysics schemes in mesoscale simulations of springtime Arctic mixed-phase stratiform clouds

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 134, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1880-1900

  Morrison, Hugh ^a,b   Pinto, J O ^a,b  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NUCLEATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SNOW;

BULK CLOUD MICROPHYSICS SCHEMES; RADIATIVE WARMING; STRATIFORM CLOUDS;

CLOUDS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; SIMULATION; STRATIFORM CLOUD;

EID: 33746929061     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3154.1     Document Type: Article

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