A case study in modeling low-lying inversions and stratocumulus cloud cover in the bay of Biscay

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 289-304

  Possner, Anna ^a   Zubler, Elias ^b   Fuhrer, Oliver ^b   Lohmann, Ulrike ^a   Schär, Christoph ^a  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^b FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIXING; TURBULENCE;

FORECAST IMPROVEMENTS; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; LENGTH-SCALE PARAMETERS; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; REALISTIC SIMULATION; REGIONAL FORECASTING; TEMPERATURE INVERSIONS;

CLOUDS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CLOUD COVER; FORECASTING METHOD; HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM; STRATOCUMULUS; TEMPERATURE INVERSION; TURBULENCE; VERTICAL MIXING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAY OF BISCAY;

EID: 84911389903     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: 15200434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-13-00039.1     Document Type: Article

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