Realistic simulations of atmospheric gravity waves over the continental U.S. using precipitation radar data

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 823-835

  Stephan, Claudia ^a   Alexander, M Joan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NORTHWEST RESEARCH ASSOCIATES   (United States)

Author keywords

convection; gravity waves; idealized model; latent heating

Indexed keywords

GRAVITY WAVES; HEAT CONVECTION; RADAR; RAIN; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC GRAVITY WAVES; CLOUD RESOLVING MODEL; CLOUD-RESOLVING MODEL SIMULATIONS; CONVECTIVE RAIN CELLS; CONVECTIVELY FORCED GRAVITY WAVES; IDEALIZED MODELS; LATENT HEATING/COOLING; QUANTITATIVE AGREEMENT;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ALGORITHM; AMPLITUDE; ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONVECTION; DATA SET; GRAVITY WAVE; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE; MODEL VALIDATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADAR; SATELLITE DATA; TROPOSPHERE; WAVE MODELING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 85027944728     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19422466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014MS000396     Document Type: Article

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