An application of the tilted independent pixel approximation to cumulonimbus environments

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 127-136

  Frame, Jeffrey W ^a   Petters, Jonathan L ^a   Markowski, Paul M ^a   Harrington, Jerry Y ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clouds; Numerical modeling; Radiation; Radiative transfer; Thunderstorms

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; CLOUDS; COPYING; GEOPHYSICS; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; RADIATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; STORMS; THUNDERSTORMS;

CLOUD FIELDS; CLOUD MODELS; COMPUTATIONALLY INEXPENSIVE; INDEPENDENT PIXEL APPROXIMATIONS; NUMERICAL MODELING; PARAMETERIZATIONS; SHORTWAVE RADIATIONS; SOLAR BEAMS; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; VERTICAL DIRECTIONS;

PIXELS;

CUMULONIMBUS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PIXEL; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; THUNDERSTORM;

EID: 56949092096     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2008.05.005     Document Type: Article

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