An improved PDF cloud scheme for climate simulations

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 136, Issue 651, 2010, Pages 1583-1597

  Kuwano Yoshida, Akira ^a   Enomoto, Takeshi ^a   Ohfuchi, Wataru ^a  

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

Author keywords

AGCM; Large scale condensation; Marine boundary layer; Stratus

Indexed keywords

AGCM; ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYERS; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; BOUNDARY LAYER CLOUDS; CLIMATE SIMULATION; EARTH SIMULATORS; GAUSSIAN PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; INVERSION LAYER; LARGE-SCALE CONDENSATION; LIQUID WATER; MARINE BOUNDARY LAYERS; MIXED-BOUNDARY; MIXING LENGTH; STANDARD DEVIATION; STRATUS; TOTAL WATER CONTENT; TURBULENCE SCHEME; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY; VERTICAL RESOLUTION;

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE MODELS; CLOUDS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONDENSATION; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; EARTH (PLANET); KINETIC ENERGY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TROPOSPHERE; WATER CONTENT;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEUS; KINETIC ENERGY; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STRATUS; TURBULENT MIXING; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 77957130017     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.660     Document Type: Article

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