The Plant-Craig stochastic convection scheme in ICON and its scale adaptivity

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 71, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3404-3415

  Keane, Richard J ^a,b   Craig, George C ^a   Keil, Christian ^a   Zängl, Günther ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

Author keywords

Convective parameterization; Deep convection; Stochastic models; Tropical variability

Indexed keywords

PLANT SHUTDOWNS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STOCHASTIC MODELS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CONVECTIVE PARAMETERIZATION; DEEP CONVECTION; FREQUENCY HISTOGRAMS; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; MULTIPLE RESOLUTIONS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY; TROPICAL VARIABILITY;

STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

CLIMATE MODELING; CONVECTION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HISTOGRAM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; STOCHASTICITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84906748733     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-13-0331.1     Document Type: Article

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