Idealized mesoscale convective system structure and propagation using convective parameterization

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2422-2442

  Correia Jr , James ^a   Arritt, Raymond W ^a   Anderson, Christopher J ^b,c  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Colorado State University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEATING;

CONVECTIVE HEATING; CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS; CUMULUS PARAMETERIZATION; FLOW FEATURES; MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS; MICROPHYSICS; PARAMETERIZED; PROPAGATION SPEED; SCALE MODELING; TIME STEPPING; TRIGGER FUNCTION; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

CRACK PROPAGATION;

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; CUMULUS; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PARAMETERIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 52149094044     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007MWR2229.1     Document Type: Article

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