The importance of the boundary layer parameterization in the prediction of low-level convergence lines

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2173-2185

  Thomsen, Gerald L ^a   Smith, Roger K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DRAG REDUCTION; HYDRODYNAMICS; METEOROLOGY; PARAMETERIZATION; RESEARCH;

AUSTRALIA; FORECASTING SYSTEMS; HIGH-RESOLUTION SIMULATIONS; MESO-SCALE; MESOSCALE MODEL; MONIN-OBUKHOV THEORY; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; PARAMETERIZATIONS; PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY; SURFACE LAYERING; SURFACE PRESSURE DISTRIBUTIONS;

FORECASTING;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PREDICTION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 49749139397     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007MWR2190.1     Document Type: Article

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