Improving NWP through radar rainfall-driven land surface parameters: A case study on convective precipitation forecasting

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1456-1469

  Papadopoulos, Anastasios ^a   Serpetzoglou, Efthymios ^a   Anagnostou, Emmanouil ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Land surface modeling; Numerical weather prediction; Radar rainfall; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; FORECASTING; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GROUNDWATER; INTEGRATION; KETONES; MOISTURE; RADAR; RAIN; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ACCURATE SIMULATIONS; ATMOSPHERIC MESOSCALE MODELS; ATMOSPHERIC MODELS; CASE STUDIES; CONTINUOUS; CONTINUOUS DATUM; CONTROL SIMULATIONS; CONVECTIVE PRECIPITATIONS; ENERGY EXCHANGES; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGNS; LAND SURFACE MODELING; LAND SURFACE PARAMETERS; LAND SURFACES; MESOSCALE CIRCULATIONS; MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS; MULTIPLE RUNS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; OPERATIONAL SETTINGS; PHYSICAL INTERPRETATIONS; PRECIPITATION FORECASTS; RADAR RAINFALL; RADAR RAINFALLS; RAINFALL FIELDS; STORM EVENTS; SURFACE CONDITIONS; SURFACE MOISTURES; TIME WINDOWS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; LAND SURFACE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RADAR; SOIL MOISTURE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

GREAT PLAINS; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 54949094010     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2008.02.001     Document Type: Article

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