Ice supersaturation in the ECMWF integrated forecast system

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 133, Issue 622, 2007, Pages 53-63

  Tompkins, A M ^a   Gierens, K ^b   Radel G ^c  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cirrus clouds; Ice nucleation; Microphysics

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CLOUDS; ICE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SUPERSATURATION;

CIRRUS CLOUDS; CLOUD COVERAGE; MICROPHYSICS; MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; HUMIDITY; ICE; MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER; NUCLEATION; PARAMETERIZATION; SUPERSATURATION; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 33947208066     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.14     Document Type: Article

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