A smooth cloud model

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1825-1843

  Reisner, J M ^a   Jeffery, C A ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; CLOUD MODELS; DYCOMS-II; DYNAMICS AND CHEMISTRY OF MARINE STRATOCUMULUS; FIELD STUDIES; FLUX-CORRECTED TRANSPORTS; HIGHER ORDER; NEWTON'S METHODS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PARAMETERIZATIONS; SOLUTION PROCEDURE; TEMPORAL ERRORS; TIME-SCALES; TIME-STEPPING;

ADVECTION; ERRORS; NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD; TIME MEASUREMENT;

CLOUDS;

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION;

EID: 68249143017     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2576.1     Document Type: Article

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