Improving a convection-permitting model simulation of a cold air outbreak

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 140, Issue 678, 2014, Pages 124-138

  Field, P R ^a   Cotton, R J ^a   Mcbeath, K ^a   Lock, A P ^a   Webster, S ^a   Allan, R P ^b  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boundary layer; Mixed phase; Unified model

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT CONTROL; MOBILE SECURITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

LOWER TEMPERATURES; MIXED PHASE; MODIFIED BOUNDARY LAYERS; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; OPEN CELLULAR CONVECTION; OPERATIONAL CONFIGURATION; STRATIFORM AND CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; UNIFIED MODELING;

BOUNDARY LAYERS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; COLD AIR; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; NUMERICAL MODEL; SIMULATION; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORWEGIAN SEA; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84907851360     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2116     Document Type: Article

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