A grid- and subgrid-scale radiation parameterization of topographic effects for mesoscale weather forecast models

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 133, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1431-1442

  Müller, Mathias D ^a   Scherer, Dieter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FLUX COMPUTATION; RADIATION FLUXES; RADIATION PARAMETERIZATION;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

FORECASTING METHOD; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PARAMETERIZATION; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

EID: 24944582640     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR2927.1     Document Type: Article

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