Sensitivity of hurricane intensity forecast to convective momentum transport parameterization

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 664-674

  Han, Jongil ^a,b   Pan, Hua Lu ^c  

^a RS Information Systems Inc   (United States)

^b Environmental Prediction Modeling Center ^*  (United States)

^c Environmental Modeling Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND STRESS;

CLOUD MASS FLUX; CONVECTIVE MOMENTUM TRANSPORT; CONVECTIVE MOMENTUM TRANSPORT PARAMETERIZATION; PRESSURE GRADIENT FORCE; REGIONAL SPECTRAL MODEL;

HURRICANES;

FORECASTING METHOD; HURRICANE; PARAMETERIZATION;

EID: 33645277624     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3090.1     Document Type: Article

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