Articles | Volume 10, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-1033-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-1033-2017
Model evaluation paper
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03 Mar 2017
Model evaluation paper |  | 03 Mar 2017

Influence of bulk microphysics schemes upon Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) version 3.6.1 nor'easter simulations

Stephen D. Nicholls, Steven G. Decker, Wei-Kuo Tao, Stephen E. Lang, Jainn J. Shi, and Karen I. Mohr

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