Articles | Volume 7, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-7-1779-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-7-1779-2014
Model description paper
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25 Aug 2014
Model description paper |  | 25 Aug 2014

A flexible three-dimensional stratocumulus, cumulus and cirrus cloud generator (3DCLOUD) based on drastically simplified atmospheric equations and the Fourier transform framework

F. Szczap, Y. Gour, T. Fauchez, C. Cornet, T. Faure, O. Jourdan, G. Penide, and P. Dubuisson

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