The Multiscale Organization of Moist Convection and the Intersection of Weather and Climate

Climate Dynamics: Why Does Climate Vary

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 3-26

  Moncrieff, Mitchell W ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Climatic changes; Convection (Meteorology); Convectiveparameterization; Dynamic meteorology; Dynamicalmodels; Ocean atmosphere interaction; Organizedconvection; Scaleinteraction; Seamlessprediction; YearofTropicalConvection

Indexed keywords

METEOROLOGY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATIC CHANGES; CONVECTIVEPARAMETERIZATION; DYNAMICALMODELS; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTIONS; ORGANIZEDCONVECTION; SCALEINTERACTION; SEAMLESSPREDICTION; YEAROFTROPICALCONVECTION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 84951267523     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GM000838     Document Type: Chapter

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