Application of the NCEP Regional Spectral Model to improve mesoscale weather forecasts in Hawaii

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 13, Issue 3 PART 1, 1998, Pages 560-575

  Wang, Jian Jian ^a,f   Juang, Hann Ming Henry ^b   Kodama, Kevin ^c,e   Businger, Steve ^d   Chen, Yi Leng ^d   Partain, James ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NCEP   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^e National Weather Service   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAIN; STORMS; WEATHER SATELLITES; WIND;

CYCLOGENESIS; LEEWARD; REGIONAL SPECTRAL MODEL;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ISLAND; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MODEL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032173307     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1998)013<0560:aotnrs>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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