Features of rainfall and latent heating structure simulated by two convective parameterization schemes

Science China Earth Sciences

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1779-1788

  Wang, Xiao Cong ^a,b,c   Bao, Qing ^a   Liu, Kun ^c   Wu, Guo Xiong ^a   Liu, Yi Min ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

convective rainfall; latent heating; Manabe scheme; SAMIL; stratiform rainfall; Tiedtke scheme

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE RAINFALL; LATENT HEATING; MANABE SCHEME; SAMIL; STRATIFORM RAINFALL; TIEDTKE SCHEME;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREEZING; HEATING; RAIN;

RAIN GAGES;

CLOUD WATER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; LATENT HEAT FLUX; PARAMETERIZATION; RAINFALL;

BAY OF BENGAL; CHINA; INDIAN OCEAN; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 80355132045     PISSN: 16747313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-011-4282-2     Document Type: Article

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