Correction and downscaling of NWP wind speed forecasts

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 105-116

  Howard, Tom ^a,b   Clark, Peter ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Downscaling; Linear theory; Mesoscale; Nowcasting; Orographic drag; Orographic roughness; Speedup; Windspeed

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DRAG; WEATHER FORECASTING;

DOWN-SCALING; LINEAR THEORY; MESOSCALE; NOWCASTING; SPEEDUP; WINDSPEED;

WIND;

BOUNDARY LAYER; COMPUTER SYSTEM; DOWNSCALING; OROGRAPHY; PARAMETERIZATION; WIND DIRECTION; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 34447100742     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: 14698080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/met.12     Document Type: Article

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