A new algorithm for the downscaling of cloud fields

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 136, Issue 646, 2010, Pages 91-106

  Venema, Victor ^a   Garcíab, Sebastián Gimeno ^b   Simmer, Clemens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

3D radiative transfer; Disaggregation; Stochastic modelling

Indexed keywords

CLOUD FIELDS; CLOUD FRACTION; CLOUD LIQUID WATERS; COARSE GRAINING; DISAGGREGATION; DOWN-SCALING; HEIGHT DISTRIBUTION; HIGH RESOLUTION; HORIZONTAL PLANES; LIQUID WATER CONTENT; MICROPHYSICAL PROPERTY; NOVEL ALGORITHM; OTHER ALGORITHMS; STOCHASTIC MODELLING; STRATOCUMULUS CLOUDS;

ALGORITHMS; LIQUIDS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WATER CONTENT;

CLOUDS;

ALGORITHM; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; CLOUD WATER; DOWNSCALING; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; STOCHASTICITY; STRATOCUMULUS;

EID: 77249167151     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.535     Document Type: Article

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