Continuous single-column model evaluation at a permanent meteorological supersite

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 93, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1389-1400

  Neggers, R A J ^a   Siebesma, A P ^a,b   Heus, T ^c  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE PREDICTION MODEL; CLOUD STRUCTURE; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; LARGE DEVIATIONS; MULTI-YEAR PERIODS; NETHERLANDS; PARAMETRIZATIONS; SINGLE-COLUMN MODEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THERMODYNAMIC STRUCTURES; TIME DEVELOPMENT;

METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

EID: 84864858063     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00162.1     Document Type: Article

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