Skill of medium-range forecasts over the Indian monsoon region using different parameterizations of deep convection

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1194-1210

  Das, Someshwar ^a   Mitra, A K ^a   Iyengar, G R ^a   Singh, J ^a  

^a Natl Ctr Medium Range Weather for   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERRORS; RAIN; WIND;

SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MONSOON; PARAMETERIZATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

INDIA;

EID: 0036931208     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(2002)017<1194:SOMRFO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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