Publication Date:
2019-07-13
Description:
The GEWEX Cloud System Study (GCSS, GEWEX is the Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment) is a community activity aiming to promote development of improved cloud parameterizations for application in the large-scale general circulation models (GCMs) used for climate research and for numerical weather prediction (Browning et al, 1994). The GCSS strategy is founded upon the use of cloud-system models (CSMs). These are "process" models with sufficient spatial and temporal resolution to represent individual cloud elements, but spanning a wide range of space and time scales to enable statistical analysis of simulated cloud systems. GCSS also employs single-column versions of the parametric cloud models (SCMs) used in GCMs. GCSS has working groups on boundary-layer clouds, cirrus clouds, extratropical layer cloud systems, precipitating deep convective cloud systems, and polar clouds.
Keywords:
Meteorology and Climatology
Type:
Clouds and Precipitation; Aug 14, 2000 - Aug 18, 2000; Reno, NV; United States|Cirrus Cloud Systems; Jul 17, 2000 - Jul 21, 2000; Reading; United Kingdom
Format:
application/pdf
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