Cloud-Resolving Modeling of Convective Processes

• Main Authors: Gao, Shouting (Author), Li, Xiaofan (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Atmospheric sciences.; Geotechnical engineering.; Geographical information systems.; Continuum physics.; Geophysics.; Earth Sciences.; Atmospheric Sciences.; Geophysics and Environmental Physics.; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography.; Earth Sciences, general.; Classical Continuum Physics.; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences.

This book examines cloud-resolving modeling of tropical convective processes and summarizes modeling results during TOGA COARE since 1992. The book introduces the framework of cloud-resolving model, methodologies for analysis of modeling outputs, and validation of simulations with observations. The...