Mesoscale impacts of explicit numerical diffusion in a convection-permitting model

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 226-244

  Langhans, Wolfgang ^a   Schmidli, Juerg ^a   Schär, Christoph ^a  

^a ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Convective parameterization; Diffusion; Mesoscale models; Numerical analysis modeling; Topographic effects

Indexed keywords

ALPINE REGIONS; ANALYTICAL MODEL; CONVECTIVE INTENSITY; DIRECT IMPACT; DIURNAL SIGNALS; ENERGY SPECTRA; HEAT BUDGET; LINEAR STABILITY THEORY; MESOSCALE; MESOSCALE MODEL; MOUNTAIN RANGES; NEAR-SURFACE; NUMERICAL DIFFUSION; NUMERICAL NOISE; OROGRAPHIC CONVECTION; PHYSICALLY BASED; SMALL-SCALE MODELING; SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS; UPSCALING; VERTICAL VELOCITY;

ADVECTION; AMPLIFICATION; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; RAIN; SPECTROSCOPY;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; HEAT BUDGET; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

EID: 84855803709     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011MWR3650.1     Document Type: Article

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