Evaluating the performance of regional-scale meteorological models: Effect of clouds simulation on temperature prediction

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1425-1433

  Liu, Gang ^a   Hogrefe, Christian ^a,b   Rao, S Trivikrama ^a,c  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION   (United States)

^c NOAA Atmospheric Sciences Modeling Division   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlation coefficient; Correlation dimension; Meteorological modeling; Model evaluation; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

REGIONAL-SCALE METEOROLOGICAL MODELS;

METEOROLOGY;

AIR QUALITY; MODEL VALIDATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; CLOUD; EVALUATION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; METEOROLOGY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALE UP; SIMULATION; TECHNIQUE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0038640112     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1352-2310(02)01062-2     Document Type: Article

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