A review on regional convection-permitting climate modeling: Demonstrations, prospects, and challenges

Reviews of Geophysics

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 323-361

  Prein, Andreas F ^a,b   Langhans, Wolfgang ^c   Fosser, Giorgia ^d   Ferrone, Andrew ^e   Ban, Nikolina ^f   Goergen, Klaus ^g,h,i   Keller, Michael ^f,j   Tölle, Merja ^k   Gutjahr, Oliver ^l   Feser, Frauke ^m   Brisson, Erwan ⁿ   Kollet, Stefan ^h,i   Schmidli, Juerg ^f,j   Van Lipzig, Nicole P M ^o   Leung, Ruby ^p  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^e LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Luxembourg)

^f Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^h FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

ⁱ Geoverbund ABC J   (Germany)

^j ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^k JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^l UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^m INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

ⁿ GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^o UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^p PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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Author keywords

added value; climate; cloud resolving; convection permitting modeling; high resolution; nonhydrostatic modeling

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ADDED VALUES; CLIMATE; CLOUD-RESOLVING; HIGH RESOLUTION; NONHYDROSTATIC MODEL;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; PARAMETERIZATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84937516623     PISSN: 87551209     EISSN: 19449208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014RG000475     Document Type: Review

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