Parameterized mesoscale forcing mechanisms for initiating numerically simulated isolated multicellular convection

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2408-2421

  Loftus, Adrian M ^a,b   Weber, Daniel B ^a,c   Doswell III, Charles A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CLOUD MODELING; INITIAL CONDITIONS; MESO-SCALE; MULTICELLULAR CONVECTION; PARAMETERIZED; VERTICAL MOTIONS; WIND FIELDS;

FLUXES;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATE FORCING; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT FLUX; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PARAMETERIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WIND FIELD;

EID: 52149099611     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007MWR2133.1     Document Type: Article

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