Modelling suppressed and active convection. Comparing a numerical weather prediction, cloud-resolving and single-column model

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 133, Issue 626 A, 2007, Pages 1087-1100

  Petch, Jon C ^a   Willett, M ^a   Wong, R Y ^a   Woolnough, S J ^b  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Convection; Forecasts; GCSS

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; RAIN; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLOUD-RESOLVING MODEL; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; RAIN RATE; SINGLE-COLUMN MODEL;

METEOROLOGY;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLOUD; CONVECTION; SIMULATION; TOP OF ATMOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 34548210984     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.109     Document Type: Article

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