Reason for the failure of the simulation of heavy rainfall during X-BAIU-01 - Importance of a vertical profile of water vapor for numerical simulations

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 993-1013

  Kato, Teruyuki ^a   Yoshizaki, Masanori ^a   Bessho, Kotaro ^a   Inoue, Toyoshiro ^a   Sato, Yoshiaki ^b  

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; RAINBAND; RAINFALL; WATER VAPOR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

KYUSHU;

EID: 1642529753     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.81.993     Document Type: Article

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