Climatology of a nonhydrostatic global model with explicit cloud processes

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 22, 2007, Pages

  Iga, S ^a   Tomita, H ^a   Tsushima, Y ^a   Satoh, M ^a,b  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLOUDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STATISTICAL METHODS;

INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MESOSCALE CIRCULATIONS; NONHYDROSTATIC GLOBAL MODEL; OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUD COVER; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; LONGWAVE RADIATION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 38949138080     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031048     Document Type: Article

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