Impact of microphysics scheme complexity on the propagation of initial perturbations

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 140, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2287-2296

  Wang, Hongli ^a   Auligné, Thomas ^a   Morrison, Hugh ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX SCHEMES; DATA ASSIMILATION; EVOLUTION CHARACTERISTICS; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; GRID-SPACINGS; HORIZONTAL WINDS; INITIAL CONDITIONS; INITIAL PERTURBATION; MESOSCALE; MICROPHYSICS; MICROPHYSICS PARAMETERIZATION; NON-LINEARITY; SCHEME COMPLEXITY; SPATIAL PATTERNS; TIME WINDOWS; VERTICAL VELOCITY; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

LIQUIDS; PHYSICS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; DATA ASSIMILATION; HUMIDITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84864859667     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00005.1     Document Type: Article

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