Improvements in climate simulation with modifications to the Tiedtke convective parameterization in the grid-point atmospheric model of IAP LASG (GAMIL)

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 323-335

  Li, Lijuan ^a,c   Wang, Bin ^a   Wang, Yuqing ^b   Wan, Hui ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Double ITCZ; GAMIL; RH threshold; Tiedtke convection scheme

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248683260     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-007-0323-3     Document Type: Article

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