Revision of convection and vertical diffusion schemes in the NCEP Global Forecast System

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 520-533

  Han, Jongil ^a   Pan, Hua Lu ^a  

^a CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary layer; Deep convection; Diffusion; Hurricanes; Parameterization

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COLUMNS; CONVECTION LAYERS; CUMULUS CONVECTION; DEEP CONVECTION; EASTERN PACIFIC; GLOBAL FORECAST SYSTEMS; LOWER ATMOSPHERE; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; NEW PHYSICS; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; SHALLOW CONVECTION; SOUTH AMERICA; STRATOCUMULUS CLOUDS; TURBULENCE DIFFUSION; TURBULENCE MIXING; VECTOR WIND; VERTICAL DIFFUSION; WEST COAST;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLOUDS; HEATING; HURRICANES; NATURAL CONVECTION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SCALE (DEPOSITS); TURBULENCE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

DIFFUSION;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; COOLING; HURRICANE; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STRATOCUMULUS; TURBULENT DIFFUSION; TURBULENT MIXING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AFRICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80052410729     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-10-05038.1     Document Type: Article

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