Towards retrieving critical relative humidity from ground-based remote-sensing observations

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 142, Issue 700, 2016, Pages 2867-2881

  Van Weverberg, Kwinten ^a   Boutle, Ian A ^a   Morcrette, Cyril J ^a   Newsom, Rob K ^b  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

ARM; clouds; parametrization; RHcrit; subgrid variability; unified model

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; CLIMATE MODELS; CLOUDS; MOISTURE; OPTICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; WATER VAPOR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

BOUNDARY LAYER PARAMETRIZATION; GROUND-BASED REMOTE SENSING; HIGH RESOLUTION OBSERVATIONS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; PARAMETRIZATIONS; RHCRIT; SUB-GRID VARIABILITY; UNIFIED MODELING;

BOUNDARY LAYERS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLOUD; DIURNAL VARIATION; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; MODELING; PARAMETERIZATION; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84983523246     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2874     Document Type: Article

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