A multi-scale modeling system: Developments, applications, and critical issues

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 515-534

  Tai, Wei Kuo ^a   Chern, Jun Dar ^a,b   Atlas, Robert ^c   Khairoutdinov, Marat ^d   Li, Jui Lin ^e   Waliser, Duane E ^e   Hou, Arthur ^a   Lin, Xin ^a,b   Peters Lidard, Christa ^a   Lau, William ^a   Jiang, Jonathan ^e   Simpson, Joanne ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD PROCESS; CLOUD RESOLVING MODEL; COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITIES; CRITICAL ISSUES; DIURNAL VARIABILITY; FINITE-VOLUME; GLOBAL COVERAGE; GLOBAL RAINFALL; INDIAN OCEAN; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MULTI-SCALE MODELING; NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; OCEANIC COMPONENTS; PARAMETERIZATIONS; PHYSICAL PROCESS; SURFACE PRECIPITATION; SURFACE PROCESS; TWO-WAY INTERACTION; WESTERN PACIFIC;

ATMOSPHERICS; CLOUDS; NASA; SPACE FLIGHT;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 68949201812     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008BAMS2542.1     Document Type: Article

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