The sensitivity of simulated convective storms to variations in prescribed single-moment microphysics parameters that describe particle distributions, sizes, and numbers

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 134, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2547-2565

  Cohen, Charles ^a   McCaul Jr , Eugene W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; EVAPORATION; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SOUNDING APPARATUS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

MICROPHYSICS PARAMETERS; REGIONAL ATMOSPHERIC MODELING SYSTEM (RAMS); STORM PROPAGATION VELOCITY;

STORMS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLOUD DROPLET; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; PARTICLE SIZE; SIMULATION;

EID: 33749012569     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3195.1     Document Type: Article

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