Does increasing horizontal resolution produce more skillful forecasts? The results of two years of real-time numerical weather prediction over the Pacific Northwest

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2002, Pages

  Mass, Clifford F ^a   Ovens, David ^a   Westrick, Ken ^a   Colle, Brian A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STORMS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; WIND;

CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS; GRID SPACING; MESOSCALE STRUCTURES;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0036243674     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(2002)083<0407:dihrpm>2.3.co;2     Document Type: Article

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