A modified Kain-Fritsch scheme and its application for the simulation of an extreme precipitation event in Vietnam

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 766-789

  Truong, Nguyen Minh ^a   Tien, Tran Tan ^a   Pielke Sr , Roger A ^b   Castro, Christopher L ^c   Leoncini, Giovanni ^d  

^a VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSURE ASSUMPTIONS; CLOUD MODELS; CONVECTIVE PARAMETERIZATION SCHEMES; EVENT SIMULATION; EXTREME PRECIPITATION; HEAVY RAINFALL; MIDTROPOSPHERE; MODIFIED SCHEME; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; REGIONAL ATMOSPHERIC MODELING SYSTEMS; RETURN FLOW; STRATIFORM CLOUDS; TRIGGER FUNCTIONS; VERTICAL GRADIENTS; VIET NAM; WINTER MONSOON;

RAIN;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; EXTREME EVENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL;

EID: 68249140006     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2434.1     Document Type: Article

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