Using stochastically generated subcolumns to represent cloud structure in a large-scale model

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 134, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3644-3656

  Pincus, Robert ^a   Hemler, Richard ^b   Klein, Stephen A ^c  

^a EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

APPROXIMATE RADIATIVE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; OPERATIONAL MODEL CONFIGURATION; RADIATIVE FLUXES; SUBGRID-SCALE CLOUD STRUCTURE;

CLOUDS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLOUD; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 33846235909     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3257.1     Document Type: Article

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