Base-State Substitution: An Idealized Modeling Technique for Approximating Environmental Variability

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 3062-3086

  Letkewicz, Casey E ^a   French, Adam J ^b   Parker, Matthew D ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND ENVIRONMENT; CONVECTIVE STORMS; DEEP MOIST CONVECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL HETEROGENEITY; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABILITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTS; IDEALIZED MODELS; MODELING TECHNIQUE;

STORMS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; KINEMATICS; MODELING; SIMULATION; STORM;

EID: 84883812408     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00200.1     Document Type: Article

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