Controls on precipitation and cloudiness in simulations of trade-wind cumulus as observed during RICO

van Zanten, M.C.; Stevens, Björn; Nuijens, Louise; Pier Siebesma, A.; S. Ackerman, Andrew; Burnet, Frédéric; Cheng, Anning; Couvreux, Fleur; Jiang, Hongli; Khairoutdinov, Marat; L. Kogan, Yefim; C. Lewellen, D.; B. Mechem, David; Nakamura, Kentaro; Noda, Akira; Shipway, Ben; Sławińska, Joanna; WANG, S.; Wyszogrodzki, Andrzej

doi:10.1029/2011ms000056

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Controls on precipitation and cloudiness in simulations of trade-wind cumulus as observed during RICO

Published in Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems • Feb 1, 2011

Authors:

M.C. van Zanten

Björn Stevens

Louise Nuijens

Abstract

Data from the undisturbed period of the Rain in Cumulus over the Ocean (RICO) field study are used to create a test case for large-eddy simulations of shallow, precipitating, trade-wind cumulus. Measurements upon which the test case are based are aug-mented by a regional scale downscaling of meteoro...

Subject

Precipitation

Cloud cover

Environmental science

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