Macroscopic impacts of cloud and precipitation processes on maritime shallow convection as simulated by a large eddy simulation model with bin microphysics

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 913-926

  Grabowski, W W ^a   Wang, L P ^b   Prabha, T V ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEUS; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; CUMULUS; DRIZZLE; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

EID: 84921884181     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-15-913-2015     Document Type: Article

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