A new modelling framework for statistical cumulus dynamics

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1962, 2012, Pages 1041-1060

  Plant, Robert S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Convective plumes; Cumulus parametrization; Macroscopic limit; Statistical cumulus dynamics

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS;

CONVECTIVE PLUME; CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS; CUMULUS PARAMETRIZATION; MACROSCOPIC LIMIT; MICROSCOPIC MODELS; MODELLING FRAMEWORK; NATURAL EXTENSION; PROBABILISTIC RULES; SIMPLIFYING ASSUMPTIONS; STATISTICAL DYNAMICS; SYSTEM SIZE; TIME DEPENDENT;

CLOUDS;

EID: 84857303379     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0377     Document Type: Article

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