Lower-tropospheric enhancement of gravity wave drag in a global spectral atmospheric forecast model

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 523-531

  Hong, Song You ^a   Choi, Jung ^a   Chang, Eun Chul ^a   Park, Hoon ^a   Kim, Young Joon ^b  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; DRAG; EXTRACTIVE METALLURGY; FORECASTING; GRAVITATION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GRAVITY WAVES; HYDRODYNAMICS; TROPOSPHERE; WAVES; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

ENHANCED PERFORMANCE; EXTRA-TROPICAL CYCLONES; FORECAST MODELS; GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC MODELS; GLOBAL SPECTRAL MODEL; GRAVITY-WAVE DRAG; HEAVY SNOWFALL; HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEMS; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; OPERATIONAL ANALYSIS; PARAMETERIZED; SEASONAL PREDICTION; SUB-GRID SCALE;

ATMOSPHERIC SPECTRA;

CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAG; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; GRAVITY WAVE; HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OROGRAPHY; PARAMETERIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SNOWSTORM; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; KOREA;

EID: 48649098277     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007WAF2007030.1     Document Type: Article

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