Improving representation of convective transport for scale-aware parameterization: 1. Convection and cloud properties simulated with spectral bin and bulk microphysics

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 120, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 3485-3509

  Fan, Jiwen ^a   Liu, Yi Chin ^a,b   Xu, Kuan Man ^c   North, Kirk ^d   Collis, Scott ^e   Dong, Xiquan ^f   Zhang, Guang J ^g   Chen, Qian ^h   Kollias, Pavlos ^a   Ghan, Steven J ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA AIR RESOURCES BOARD   (United States)

^c NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CUMULUS; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PARAMETERIZATION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84929707929     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014JD022142     Document Type: Article

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