Evaluating low-cloud simulation from an upgraded multiscale modeling framework model. Part I: Sensitivity to spatial resolution and climatology

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 5717-5740

  Xu Dr , Kuan Man ^a   Cheng, Anning ^b  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD PARAMETERIZATIONS; CLOUD RESOLVING MODEL; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HORIZONTAL DISTRIBUTION; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SOUTH PACIFIC CONVERGENCE ZONES; TROPICAL PRECIPITATION;

CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

CALIPSO; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUD; CLOUDSAT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

EID: 84881630278     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00200.1     Document Type: Article

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