A cloud-resolving model with an adaptive vertical grid for boundary layer clouds

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1058-1074

  Marchand, Roger ^a   Ackerman, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive models; Boundary layer; Cloud resolving models; Grid systems

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MODELS; BOUNDARY LAYER CLOUDS; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD RESOLVING MODEL; CLOUD RESOLVING MODELS; CLOUD-RESOLVING MODEL SIMULATIONS; DYCOMS-II; DYNAMICS AND CHEMISTRY OF MARINE STRATOCUMULUS; FIXED GRIDS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; GRID CELLS; GRID SYSTEMS; MULTI-SCALE MODELING; PARAMETERIZATIONS; POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; SUBGRID SCALE; TRANSITION EXPERIMENT; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY; VERTICAL GRIDS; VERTICAL SPACING; WATER FLUX;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLIMATE MODELS; CLOUDS; EXPERIMENTS; KINETIC ENERGY; WATER CONTENT;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; STRATOCUMULUS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 79958695275     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAS3638.1     Document Type: Article

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