A spectral cumulus parameterization scheme interpolating between two convective updrafts with semi-lagrangian calculation of transport by compensatory subsidence

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 143, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 597-621

  Yoshimura, Hiromasa ^a   Mizuta, Ryo ^a   Murakami, Hiroyuki ^b  

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; INTERPOLATION; SUBSIDENCE;

ATMOSPHERIC SIMULATIONS; COURANT FRIEDRICHS LEWY (CFL) CONDITIONS; CUMULUS PARAMETERIZATION SCHEMES; DIFFERENT HEIGHTS; ENTRAINMENT RATES; GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC MODELS; NATURAL MATERIALS; SEMI-LAGRANGIAN SCHEME;

LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; CUMULUS; PARAMETERIZATION; UPDRAFT;

EID: 84928888952     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-14-00068.1     Document Type: Article

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