Cloud modeling tests of the ULTIMATE-MACHO scalar advection scheme

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 139, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3248-3264

  Yamaguchi, Takanobu ^a,c   Randall, David A ^a   Khairoutdinov, Marat F ^b  

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD FIELDS; CLOUD MODELING; DEEP CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; DOMAIN SIZE; FINE GRIDS; GRID-SPACINGS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH RESOLUTION SIMULATIONS; HIGHER ORDER; HIGHER-ORDER SCHEME; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; NUMERICAL COSTS; NUMERICAL DIFFUSION; NUMERICAL SCHEME; SCALAR ADVECTION; SCALAR FIELDS; SECOND-ORDER SCHEME; STRATOCUMULUS CLOUDS; TURBULENCE FIELDS;

CLOUDS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION;

ADVECTION;

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MODEL TEST; NUMERICAL MODEL; STRATOCUMULUS;

EID: 81355122791     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-10-05044.1     Document Type: Article

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