Seamless stratocumulus simulation across the turbulent gray zone

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 142, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1655-1668

  Boutle, I A ^a   Eyre, J E J ^a   Lock, A P ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boundary layer; Cloud parameterizations; Large eddy simulations; Numerical weather prediction forecasting; Parameterization; Subgrid scale processes

Indexed keywords

BLENDING; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; PARAMETERIZATION; TURBULENCE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIRCRAFT OBSERVATIONS; BOUNDARY LAYER DEPTH; CLOUD PARAMETERIZATIONS; MICROPHYSICAL PARAMETERIZATION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION/FORECASTING; SUB-GRID SCALE PROCESS; TURBULENCE PARAMETERIZATION;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; STRATOCUMULUS; TURBULENCE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84897403853     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-13-00229.1     Document Type: Article

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