Ice supersaturation in ECMWF's Integrated Forecast System
Tompkins, Adrian and Gierens, Klaus Martin and Rädel, Gaby (2006) Ice supersaturation in ECMWF's Integrated Forecast System. ECMWF Newsletter, 109, pp. 26-32.
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Abstract
A new cirrus cloud parametrisation of ECMWF's weather forecast model is described, that allows ice supersaturation to exist in cloud free air. Validation tests are perfomed, including the models ability to predict the occurrence of persistent contrails over Reading, UK.
| Document Type: | Article | ||||||||
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| Title: | Ice supersaturation in ECMWF's Integrated Forecast System | ||||||||
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| Date: | September 2006 | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | ECMWF Newsletter | ||||||||
| Refereed publication: | No | ||||||||
| In SCOPUS: | No | ||||||||
| In ISI Web of Science: | No | ||||||||
| Volume: | 109 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 26-32 | ||||||||
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| Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Keywords: | Weather forecast, Cirrus clouds, Ice supersaturation, Contrails | ||||||||
| HGF - Research field: | Aeronautics, Space and Transport | ||||||||
| HGF - Program: | Space | ||||||||
| HGF - Program Themes: | W EO - Erdbeobachtung | ||||||||
| DLR - Research area: | Space | ||||||||
| DLR - Program: | W EO - Erdbeobachtung | ||||||||
| DLR - Research theme (Project): | W - Vorhaben Atmosphären- und Klimaforschung (old) | ||||||||
| Location: | Oberpfaffenhofen | ||||||||
| Institutes and Institutions: | Institute of Atmospheric Physics > Atmospheric Dynamics | ||||||||
| Deposited By: | Dr.rer.nat. Klaus Martin Gierens | ||||||||
| Deposited On: | 25 Sep 2007 | ||||||||
| Last Modified: | 14 Jan 2010 23:39 |
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