Fluctuations in a quasi-stationary shallow cumulus cloud ensemble

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 65-85

  Sakradzija, M ^a,b   Seifert, A ^c   Heus, T ^a,d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b INTERNATIONAL MAX PLANCK RESEARCH SCHOOL ON EARTH SYSTEM MODELLING   (Germany)

^c DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CUMULUS; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TRACKING;

EID: 84921902425     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: 16077946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-22-65-2015     Document Type: Article

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