Diagnosis of systematic differences between multiple parametrizations of warm rain microphysics using a kinematic framework

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 138, Issue 669, 2012, Pages 2196-2211

  Shipway, B J ^a   Hill, A A ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

1D; Bin; Bulk; KiD; Kinematic; Moments; Warm rain

Indexed keywords

1D; BULK; CLOUD RESOLVING MODEL; DRIVER MODELS; INTERCEPT PARAMETERS; INTERCOMPARISONS; KID; MICROPHYSICS; MICROPHYSICS PARAMETRIZATION; MODELLING FRAMEWORK; MOMENTS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; PARAMETRIZATIONS; PERSISTENT FEATURE; PRECIPITATION RATES; SENSITIVITY TESTS; STANDARD TESTS; SURFACE PRECIPITATION; VARIABLE SHAPE;

BINS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HURRICANE EFFECTS; KINEMATICS; RAIN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

PHYSICS;

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; KINEMATICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84871629248     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.1913     Document Type: Article

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