Spurious grid-scale precipitation in the North American Regional Reanalysis

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 135, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2168-2184

  West, Gregory L ^a   Steenburgh, W James ^a   Cheng, William Y Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; SPURIOUS GRID-SCALE PRECIPITATION (SGSP);

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETERIZATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVECTION; DATA SET; LATENT HEAT FLUX; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; REAL TIME; REGIONAL CLIMATE; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; VORTICITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 34447343067     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3375.1     Document Type: Article

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