Sensitivity of monsoon circulation and precipitation over India to model horizontal resolution and orographic effects

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 345-356

  Wu, Yihua ^c   Raman, S ^c   Mohanty, U C ^a   Madala, R V ^b  

^a Institute of Information Technology   (India)

^b SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; HEAT FLUX; RAIN; TOPOGRAPHY; WIND;

DIFFERENT RESOLUTIONS; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; MONSOON CIRCULATIONS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OROGRAPHIC EFFECTS; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SOUTHWEST MONSOON; SURFACE PRESSURES;

PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS;

HEAT FLUX; MONSOON; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGRAPHY; PREDICTION; RAINFALL; SIMULATION; TOPOGRAPHY; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 0042868862     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1350482702003080     Document Type: Article

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