Controls on precipitation and cloudiness in simulations of trade-wind cumulus as observed during RICO

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  VanZanten, Margreet C ^a   Stevens, Bjorn ^b,c   Nuijens, Louise ^b,c   Siebesma, A Pier ^a,d   Ackerman, A S ^e   Burnet, F ^f   Cheng, A ^g   Couvreux, F ^f   Jiang, H ^h   Khairoutdinov, M ⁱ   Kogan, Y ^j   Lewellen, D C ^k   Mechem, D ^l   Nakamura, K ^m   Noda, A ^m   Shipway, B J ⁿ   Slawinska, J ^o   Wang, S ^p   Wyszogrodzki, A ^q  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^e NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^f CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^g SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^h Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

ⁱ STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^k West Virginia University   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

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

ⁿ MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^o UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^p NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^q NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; POPULATION STATISTICS; RAIN;

INDEPENDENT MEASUREMENT; METEOROLOGICAL ANALYSIS; MICROPHYSICAL MODELS; MICROPHYSICAL STRUCTURE; POPULATION DENSITIES; REGIONAL DOWNSCALING; SURFACE PRECIPITATION; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 79953056130     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19422466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011MS000056     Document Type: Article

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