Mean-state acceleration of cloud-resolving models and large eddy simulations

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1643-1660

  Jones, C R ^a   Bretherton, C S ^a   Pritchard, M S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

cloud resolving models; large eddy simulation; superparameterization

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; CLOUDS;

CLOUD CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLOUD RESOLVING MODEL; COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERE MODEL; DEEP CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; PHYSICAL PARAMETERIZATION; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL SCALE; SUPERPARAMETERIZATION; TIME SCALE SEPARATION;

LARGE EDDY SIMULATION;

ACCELERATION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; PARAMETERIZATION; PERTURBATION; SIMULATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STRATOCUMULUS;

EID: 84959508800     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19422466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015MS000488     Document Type: Article

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