An experiment using NSCAT winds in the numerical prediction of tropical mesoscale rainfall systems under the influence of terrain

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 311-314

  Chang, C P ^a   Lin, S C ^a,d   Liou, C S ^a,b   Liu, W Timothy ^c  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METEOROLOGY; RAIN; TROPICS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

MONSOONAL CONVECTION; TERRAIN EFFECTS; TROPICAL MESOSCALE RAINFALL SYSTEMS;

WIND; RAIN;

MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MONSOON; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFALL; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

TAIWAN;

COASTAL REGIONS; HEAVY RAINFALL FORECAST; MESOSCALE; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; RAINFALL SYSTEMS; TERRAIN EFFECT; TROPICAL MESOSCALE;

EID: 0033084051     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900299     Document Type: Article

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