Deep moist atmospheric convection in a subkilometer global simulation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 4922-4926

  Miyamoto, Yoshiaki ^a   Kajikawa, Yoshiyuki ^a   Yoshida, Ryuji ^a   Yamaura, Tsuyoshi ^a   Yashiro, Hisashi ^a,b   Tomita, Hirofumi ^a,b  

^a RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science ^*  (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

deep convection; global atmospheric model

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATE SYSTEM; CONVECTIVE CELL; DEEP CONVECTION; GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC MODELS; GLOBAL SIMULATION; GRID REFINEMENT; SPATIAL SCALE;

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; MOMENTUM; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESOLUTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EID: 84884293532     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50944     Document Type: Article

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