Prognostic precipitation with three liquid water classes in the ECHAM5-HAM GCM

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 15, Issue 15, 2015, Pages 8717-8738

  Sant, V ^a,c   Posselt, R ^b   Lohmann, U ^a  

^a ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^b Federal Institute for Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSchweiz   (Switzerland)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STRATIFORM CLOUD;

EID: 84938717835     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-15-8717-2015     Document Type: Article

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