Unified treatment of dry convective and stratocumulus-topped boundary layers in the ECMWF model

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 137, Issue 654, 2011, Pages 43-57

  KoHler, M ^a   Ahlgrimm, M ^a   Beljaars, A ^a  

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

Author keywords

Boundary layer; Convection; Parametrization

Indexed keywords

ADDITIONAL MASS; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD OBSERVATIONS; CONVECTION; EDDY DIFFUSIVITIES; MODEL SIMULATION; PARAMETRIZATIONS; RESEARCH FIELDS; STRATOCUMULUS-TOPPED BOUNDARY LAYERS;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPTICAL RADAR;

CLOUDS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUD COVER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLING; CUMULUS; EDDY COVARIANCE; ENTRAINMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LIDAR; MIXING RATIO; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; STRATOCUMULUS; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EUROPE;

EID: 79251482201     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.713     Document Type: Article

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