Current Trends in the Representation of Physical Processes in Weather and Climate Models Gebunden

This book focuses on the development of physical parameterization over the last 2 to 3 decades and provides a roadmap for its future development. It covers important physical processes: convection clouds radiation land-surface and the orographic effect. The improvement of numerical models for predicting weather and climate at a variety of places and times has progressed globally. However there are still several challenging areas which need to be addressed with a better understanding of physical processes based on observations and to subsequently be taken into account by means of improve d parameterization. And this is all the more important since models are increasingly being used at higher horizontal and vertical resolutions. Encouraging debate on the cloud-resolving approach or the hybrid approach with parameterized convection and grid-scale cloud microphysics and its impact on models¿ intrinsic predictability the book offers a motivating reference guide for all researchers whose work involves physical parameterization problems and numerical models.