Prediction of clouds and rain using a z-coordinate nonhydrostatic model

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 134, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3625-3643

  Steppeler, Juergen ^a   Bitzer, H W ^b   Janjic, Z ^c   Schattler U ^a   Prohl, P ^a   Gjertsen, U ^d   Torrisi, L ^e   Parfinievicz, J ^f   Avgoustoglou, E ^g   Damrath, U ^a  

^a DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

^b Aw Geophys   (Germany)

^c CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^d NORWEGIAN METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^e CNMCA   (Italy)

^f INSTITUTE OF METEOROLOGY AND WATER MANAGEMENT   (Poland)

^g HNMS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLOUDS; FORECASTING; LANDFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIOSONDES; RAIN; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC FLOW; LOKALMODELL (LM-Z); SMOOTH OROGRAPHY; Z-COORDINATE NONHYDROSTATIC MODEL;

CLIMATOLOGY;

COORDINATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGRAPHY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33846224311     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3331.1     Document Type: Article

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