Impact of different IFS microphysics on a warm conveyor belt and the downstream flow evolution

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 142, Issue 700, 2016, Pages 2727-2739

  Joos, H ^a   Forbes, R M ^b  

^a ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

diabatic potential vorticity; extratropical cyclones; IFS; Lagrangian trajectory; latent heating

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CONVEYORS; RAIN; VORTICITY;

DIABATIC POTENTIALS; EXTRATROPICAL CYCLONES; GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC MODELS; LAGRANGIAN TRAJECTORIES; MICROPHYSICAL MEASUREMENTS; MICROPHYSICAL PROCESS; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; WARM CONVEYOR BELTS;

BELT CONVEYORS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; DIABATIC PROCESS; EXTRATROPICAL CYCLONE; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; LATENT HEAT FLUX; PARAMETERIZATION; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84981294951     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2863     Document Type: Article

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