Automated tracking of shallow cumulus clouds in large domain, long duration large eddy simulations

This paper presents a method for feature tracking of fields of shallow cumulus convection in large eddy simulations (LES) by connecting the projected cloud cover in space and time, and by accounting for splitting and merging of cloud objects. Existing methods tend to be either imprecise or, when usi...

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Main Authors: T. Heus, A. Seifert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2013-08-01
Series:Geoscientific Model Development
Online Access:http://www.geosci-model-dev.net/6/1261/2013/gmd-6-1261-2013.pdf