A PDF-based hybrid prognostic cloud scheme for general circulation models

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 795-816

  Watanabe, Masahiro ^a   Emori, S ^a,b,c   Satoh, M ^a,c   Miura, H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cloud; GCM; Parameterization; Prognostic scheme; Subgrid scale PDF

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD WATER; CUMULUS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL CLIMATE; PARAMETERIZATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TURBULENT MIXING;

EID: 77955584319     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-008-0489-0     Document Type: Article

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