Application of an adaptive radiative transfer scheme in a mesoscale numerical weather prediction model

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 138, Issue 662, 2012, Pages 91-102

  Schomburg, A ^a,b   Venema, V ^a   Ament, F ^c   Simmer, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Radiation parametrization

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SCHEME; ATMOSPHERIC COLUMNS; ATMOSPHERIC HEATING RATE; ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; CLOUD WATER; COMPUTATIONAL BURDEN; INTERPOLATION TECHNIQUES; MESOSCALE; MODEL SIMULATION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; OPERATIONAL SCHEMES; OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; PARAMETRIZATIONS; RADIATION SURFACES; RAIN RATES; REFERENCE MODELS; SAMPLING ERRORS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL CORRELATION; SPATIAL VARIABILITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERRORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; HEATING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84856225448     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.890     Document Type: Article

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