An attempt to simulate Low-level cloud in the NCEP Climate Forecast System (Version 2) through a Stochastic Multicloud Model

Kumar Roy1,2, Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay1, R Phani1 and Boualem Khouider3, (1)Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India, (2)Department of Meteorology and Oceanography, College of Science and Technology, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India, (3)University of Victoria, Mathematics and Statistics, Victoria, BC, Canada