Self-consistency tests of large-scale dynamics parameterizations for single-column modeling

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 320-334

  Edman, Jacob P ^a,b   Romps, David M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

convection; gravity waves; large scale dynamics; single column modeling; WPG; WTG

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; GRAVITY WAVES; HEAT CONVECTION; PARAMETERIZATION; PLASMA THEORY;

CLOUD RESOLVING SIMULATIONS; LARGE-SCALE DYNAMICS; NONMONOTONIC BEHAVIORS; RADIATIVE-CONVECTIVE EQUILIBRIUM; SINGLE-COLUMN MODEL; WEAK TEMPERATURE GRADIENT APPROXIMATIONS; WPG; WTG;

TESTING;

CLOUD; COUPLING; GRAVITY WAVE; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION;

GREAT PLAINS;

EID: 85027917856     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19422466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014MS000378     Document Type: Article

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