Sensitivity of tropical cyclones to parameterized convection in the NASA GEOS-5 model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 551-573

  Lim, Young Kwon ^a   Schubert, Siegfried D ^a   Reale, Oreste ^b   Lee, Myong In ^c   Molod, Andrea M ^d   Suarez, Max J ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^c Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR ENTRAINMENT; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; HEAT FLUX; NASA; NATURAL CONVECTION; PARAMETERIZATION; STORMS; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); TROPOSPHERE; WIND;

CONTROL CONFIGURATION; GODDARD EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS; HORIZONTAL GRID SPACING; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; MAXIMUM WIND SPEED; MOIST CONVECTION; MOISTURE FLUX CONVERGENCES; UPPER TROPOSPHERE;

HURRICANES;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EOS; HURRICANE; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MODELING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPOSPHERE; WIND VELOCITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84921664676     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00104.1     Document Type: Article

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