Impact of environmental instability on convective precipitation uncertainty associated with the nature of the rimed ice species in a bulk microphysics scheme

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2841-2849

  Van Weverberg, Kwinten ^a,b  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULK MICROPHYSICS; CONVECTIVE PRECIPITATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL INSTABILITY; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; PRECIPITATION DISTRIBUTION; QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION FORECAST; SURFACE PRECIPITATION;

PHYSICS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTION; STORMS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ICE;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; HAIL; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STORM; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

MIDWEST; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84881301417     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-13-00036.1     Document Type: Article

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