A hybrid convection scheme for use in non-hydrostatic numerical weather prediction models

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 775-783

  Kuell, Volker ^a   Bott, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSICAL SCHEMES; COARSE GRID; CONCEPTUAL PROBLEMS; CONVECTIVE CELL; CONVECTIVE MASS FLUX; COSMO MODEL; GRID SCALE; GRID SIZE; LOCAL GRIDS; MASS FLUX; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; NWP MODEL; PARAMETERIZED; PRESSURE GRADIENT FORCE; QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION FORECAST; SEA BREEZE CIRCULATION;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CELL MEMBRANES; HEAT FLUX; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MESH GENERATION; PRESSURE GRADIENT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

SIMULATORS;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATE PREDICTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRESSURE GRADIENT; SEA BREEZE; UPDRAFT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 63449124199     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2008/0342     Document Type: Article

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