Restricting 32-128 km horizontal scales hardly affects the MJO in the Superparameterized Community Atmosphere Model v.3.0 but the number of cloud-resolving grid columns constrains vertical mixing

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 723-739

  Pritchard, Michael S ^a   Bretherton, Christopher S ^b   Demott, Charlotte A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

climate modeling; intraseasonal; Madden Jullian oscillation; multiscale; rainfall; superparameterization

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLIMATE MODELS; DYNAMICS; EFFICIENCY; MIXING; RAIN;

CLOUD RESOLVING MODEL; COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERE MODEL; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; INTRA-SEASONAL; MADDEN-JULLIAN OSCILLATION; MULTISCALE; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; SUPERPARAMETERIZATION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE MODELING; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; VENTILATION; VERTICAL MIXING;

EID: 84932199444     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19422466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014MS000340     Document Type: Article

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