The sensitivity of the numerical simulation of the southwest monsoon boundary layer to the choice of PBL turbulence parameterization in MM5

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 99-114

  Bright, David R ^a   Mullen, Steven L ^a  

^a National Weather Service Forecast Office   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT CONVECTION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POTENTIAL ENERGY;

PRECIPITATION FORECAST;

FORECASTING;

BOUNDARY LAYER; MONSOON; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TURBULENCE;

(SOUTHWEST); UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036464775     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(2002)017<0099:TSOTNS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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