Correction of excessive precipitation over steep and high mountains in a GCM

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1547-1561

  Chao, Winston C ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate models; Convective parameterization; General circulation models; Model errors; Regional models; Subgrid scale processes

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL VALUE; DATA ASSIMILATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HIGH MOUNTAINS; MESOSCALE MODEL; MODEL ERRORS; MOISTURE TRANSPORT; MOUNTAIN SLOPES; PARAMETERIZED; REGIONAL MODEL; SENSIBLE HEAT; SUBGRID SCALE; TRANSPORT OF HEAT; VENTILATION EFFECTS; VERTICAL CIRCULATION;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLIMATE MODELS; MOISTURE;

LANDFORMS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE MODELING; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; EOS; ERROR ANALYSIS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MOISTURE CONTENT; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84864863535     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-11-0216.1     Document Type: Article

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