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Coupling of convection and circulation at various resolutions

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Volume 67 (2015): Issue 1
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v67.26678 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
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Language: English
Page range: 26678 - 26678
Submitted on: Nov 20, 2014
Accepted on: Feb 17, 2015
Published on: Dec 1, 2015
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Keywords:
thermally induced mesoscale circulation,
precipitation,
sea breeze,
convection-permitting,
convective parameterisations,
large-eddy simulations

© 2015 Cathy Hohenegger, Linda Schlemmer, Levi Silvers, published by Stockholm University Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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