Impact of graupel parameterization schemes on idealized bow echo simulations

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1241-1262

  Adams Selin, Rebecca D ^a,b   Van Den Heever, Susan C ^b   Johnson, Richard H ^b  

^a ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED RESEARCHES; MICROPHYSICAL PROCESS; PARAMETERIZATION SCHEMES; PRESSURE PERTURBATION; SENSITIVITY TESTS; SEVERE WEATHER; SURFACE-BASED; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

BUOYANCY; CLOUDS; COOLING; LAKES; MELTING; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SNOW;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BUOYANCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLING; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; PARAMETERIZATION; PRESSURE GRADIENT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84874983920     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00064.1     Document Type: Article

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