Cloud-system resolving simulations with the NASA Goddard Earth Observing System global atmospheric model (GEOS-5)

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 16, 2011, Pages

  Putman, William M ^a   Suarez, Max ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HURRICANES; HYDRAULICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; NASA; STORMS;

ATLANTIC HURRICANE; CLOUD-RESOLVING; CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY; CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS; DYNAMICAL CORE; FINITE-VOLUME; GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC MODELS; GLOBAL MODELING; GLOBAL MODELS; GODDARD EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS; MULTISCALES; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; TROPICAL CONVECTION; TROPICAL CYCLONE ACTIVITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; EOS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; HURRICANE; HYDROSTATICS; LATITUDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RESOLUTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

EID: 80052235743     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL048438     Document Type: Article

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