Influence of initial conditions on the WRF-ARW Model QPF response to physical parameterization changes

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 501-519

  Jankov, Isidora ^a,b,c   Gallus Jr , William A ^a   Segal, Moti ^a   Koch, Steven E ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCAL ANALYSES AND PREDICTION SYSTEM; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYER; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODEL SIMULATIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETERIZATION; RAIN;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; DATA SET; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PARAMETERIZATION; RAINFALL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 34249095324     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF998.1     Document Type: Article

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