Nonlinear advection algorithms applied to interrelated tracers: Errors and implications for modeling aerosol-cloud interactions

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 632-644

  Ovtchinnikov, Mikhail ^a   Easter, Richard C ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION ALGORITHMS; AEROSOL-CLOUD INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; CLOUD BASE; CLOUD PARTICLE SIZE; LOCAL ERROR; MIXING RATIOS; MODEL VARIABLES; MONOTONICITY; MONOTONICITY CONSTRAINT; ONE-DIMENSIONAL; POSITIVE DEFINITENESS;

ADVECTION; ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ERRORS; MIXING;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ADVECTION; AEROSOL; ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLOUD; ERROR ANALYSIS; FLOW VELOCITY; MIXING RATIO; TRACER;

EID: 68249158191     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2626.1     Document Type: Article

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