Evaluation of the WRF PBL parameterizations for marine boundary layer clouds: Cumulus and stratocumulus

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2265-2271

  Huang, Hsin Yuan ^a   Hall, Alex ^a   Teixeira, Joao ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETTER PERFORMANCE; LARGE-EDDY SIMULATION MODELS; MARINE BOUNDARY LAYER CLOUDS; MODEL PERFORMANCE; RUNNING-IN; VERTICAL BOUNDARIES; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLOUDS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

PARAMETERIZATION;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CUMULUS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; STRATOCUMULUS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84880709530     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00292.1     Document Type: Article

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