Convection in Lorenz's global energy cycle with the ECMWF model

Tellus, Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1001-1022

  Steinheimer, Martin ^a   Hantel, Michael ^a   Bechtold, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; ENERGY DISSIPATION; HEAT FLUX; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; POTENTIAL ENERGY; THERMAL CONVECTION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 53049091998     PISSN: 02806495     EISSN: 16000870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0870.2008.00348.x     Document Type: Article

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