Observed scaling in clouds and precipitation and scale incognizance in regional to global atmospheric models

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 9313-9333

  O'Brien, Travis A ^a   Li, Fuyu ^a   Collins, William D ^a,b   Rauscher, Sara A ^c   Ringler, Todd D ^c   Taylor, Mark ^d   Hagos, Samson M ^e   Leung, L Ruby ^e  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^e PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud parameterizations; Convective parameterization; General circulation models; Model evaluation performance; Regional models; Subgrid scale processes

Indexed keywords

CLOUD PARAMETERIZATIONS; CONVECTIVE PARAMETERIZATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MODEL EVALUATION/PERFORMANCE; REGIONAL MODEL; SUB-GRID SCALE PROCESS;

CLIMATE MODELS; EXPERIMENTS; PARAMETERIZATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STRATIFORM CLOUD;

EID: 84888064298     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00005.1     Document Type: Article

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