Limited-are a modelling of stratocumulus over South-Eastern Pacific

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 3511-3526

  Andrejczuk, M ^a,c   Grabowski, W W ^b   Gadian, A ^a   Burton, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITION; BOUNDARY LAYER; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRATOCUMULUS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHEAST);

EID: 84880608192     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-12-3511-2012     Document Type: Article

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