Assessment of valley cold pools and clouds in a very high-resolution numerical weather prediction model

Geoscientific Model Development

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 3105-3117

  Hughes, J K ^a   Ross, A N ^a   Vosper, S B ^b   Lock, A P ^b   Jemmett Smith, B C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLOUD COVER; COLD AIR; COLD POOL; LONGWAVE RADIATION; PARAMETERIZATION; PREDICTION; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SURFACE ENERGY; TEMPERATURE; VALLEY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84943653986     PISSN: 1991959X     EISSN: 19919603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-8-3105-2015     Document Type: Article

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