Model forecast improvements with decreased horizontal grid spacing over finescale intermountain orography during the 2002 Olympic Winter Games

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 558-576

  Hart, Kenneth A ^a,b   Steenburgh, W James ^a   Onton, Daryl J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); WIND EFFECTS;

FORECAST IMPROVEMENTS; HORIZONTAL GRID SPACING; NOCTURNAL FLOW; TEMPERATURE FORECASTS; WIND SPEED;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

FORECASTING METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); WEATHER FORECASTING;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; UTAH; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 27544459449     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF865.1     Document Type: Article

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