Impacts of ice microphysics on rainfall and thermodynamic processes in the tropical deep convective regime: A 2D cloud-resolving modeling study

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 134, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 3015-3024

  Gao, Shouting ^a   Ran, Lingkun ^a   Li, Xiaofan ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLOUDS; ICE; TROPICS; VAPOR DEPOSITION;

ICE CLOUDS; ICE MICROPHYSICS; TROPICAL DEEP CONVECTIVE REGIME; TROPICAL OCEAN GLOBAL ATMOSPHERE COUPLED OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE RESPONSE EXPERIMENT; TWO-DIMENSIONAL CLOUD-RESOLVING SIMULATIONS;

RAIN;

ADVECTION; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; RAINFALL; SIMULATION; THERMODYNAMICS; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 33750471195     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3220.1     Document Type: Article

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