NAM-SCA: A Nonhydrostatic anelastic model with segmentally constant approximations

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1957-1974

  Yano, Jun Ichi ^a   Benard, Pierre ^a   Couvreux, Fleur ^a   Lahellec, Alain ^b  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

Anelastic models; Convective parameterization; Mass fluxes transport

Indexed keywords

ANELASTIC MODELS; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYERS; CONVECTIVE PARAMETERIZATION; CONVECTIVE PLUME; CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS; INHOMOGENEOUS DISTRIBUTION; MODELING STRATEGY; NUMERICAL ACCURACY; PERIODIC DOMAINS; PROTOTYPE MODELS; WHOLE SYSTEMS;

MODELS; PARAMETERIZATION;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; MASS TRANSPORT; PARAMETERIZATION;

EID: 77955580719     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR2997.1     Document Type: Article

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