On the numerical treatment of hydrometeor sedimentation in bulk and hybrid bulk-bin microphysics schemes

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 140, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1572-1588

  Morrison, Hugh ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud parameterizations; Model comparison; Numerical analysis modeling

Indexed keywords

AIR MOTION; BULK MICROPHYSICS; COURANT NUMBERS; FIRST-ORDER; FUNCTIONAL FORMS; HYBRID SCHEME; MICROPHYSICS; MODEL COMPARISON; NUMERICAL TREATMENTS; PARAMETERIZATIONS; SINGLE-STEP; TIME SPLITTING;

AIR; CLOUDS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYSICS; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

BINS;

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICLE SIZE; SEDIMENTATION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84864912401     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-11-00140.1     Document Type: Article

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