Higher-order turbulence closure and its impact on climate simulations in the community atmosphere model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 9655-9676

  Bogenschutz, Peter A ^a   Gettelman, Andrew ^a   Morrison, Hugh ^a   Larson, Vincent E ^b   Craig, Cheryl ^a   Schanen, David P ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate models; Cloud parameterizations; Clouds; General circulation models; Subgrid scale processes

Indexed keywords

CLOUD PARAMETERIZATIONS; COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERE MODEL; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MARINE BOUNDARY LAYER CLOUDS; OBSERVATIONAL ANALYSIS; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF); SUB-GRID SCALE PROCESS;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CAMS; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PARAMETERIZATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; PARAMETERIZATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STRATOCUMULUS; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER;

EID: 84887298740     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00075.1     Document Type: Article

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