Evaluation of trade cumulus in the ECMWF model with observations from CALIPSO

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 3071-3083

  Ahlgrimm, Maike ^a   Köhler, Martin ^a  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIPSO; CLOUD FRACTION; CLOUD-AEROSOL LIDAR AND INFRARED PATHFINDER SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; CUMULUS CLOUD; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; FREQUENCY OF OCCURRENCES; GRID POINTS; HEIGHT DISTRIBUTION; INTEGRATED FORECASTING SYSTEMS; MASS FLUX; SAMPLE POPULATION; SHALLOW CONVECTION;

CLOUDS; COMMERCE; OPTICAL RADAR;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CALIPSO; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CUMULUS; FORECASTING METHOD;

EID: 77958454941     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3320.1     Document Type: Article

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