Predictability mysteries in cloud-resolving models

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 134, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2095-2107

  Hohenegger, Cathy ^a   Lüthi, Daniel ^a   Schär, Christoph ^a  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLOUDS; GRAVITY WAVES;

MESOSCALE ALPINE PROGRAMME (MAP); NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION (NWP); PREDICTABILITY LEVEL;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SIMULATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 33747758699     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3176.1     Document Type: Article

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