Mesoscale simulation of an extreme rainfall event over Mumbai, India, using a high-resolution MM5 model

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 291-295

  Litta, A J ^a,b   Chakrapani, B ^a   Mohankumar, K ^a  

^a Department of Physics   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Convection scheme; Heavy rainfall; Mesoscale model; Mid tropospheric mesoscale vortex

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; RAIN; STORMS; TROPOSPHERE; VORTEX FLOW;

ACCURATE PREDICTION; HEAVY RAINFALL; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; MESO-SCALE MODELING; MESOSCALE SIMULATION; MESOSCALE VORTICES; MONSOON CONDITIONS; PARAMETERIZATION SCHEMES;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE MODELING; EXTREME EVENT; MESOSCALE EDDY; MONSOON; RAINFALL; SIMULATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; THUNDERSTORM; TROPOSPHERE;

INDIA; MAHARASHTRA; MUMBAI;

EID: 34548734312     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: 14698080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/met.31     Document Type: Article

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