A modeling study of Typhoon Nari (2001) at landfall. Part I: Topographic effects

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3095-3115

  Yang, Ming Jen ^a   Zhang, Da Lin ^b   Huang, Hsiao Ling ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; GAGES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; STORMS;

AND MODELING; BLOCKING EFFECTS; CIRCULAR SHAPES; COMPLEX INTERACTIONS; DAMPING EFFECTS; DIAGNOSTIC ANALYSES; GRID SIZES; LATENT HEAT RELEASES; MESOSCALE MODELS; MODELING STUDIES; NONLINEAR TRACKS; RAIN BANDS; RAIN GAUGES; RAINFALL DISTRIBUTIONS; SENSITIVITY EXPERIMENTS; STEERING FLOWS; STORM INTENSITIES; STORM TRACKS; STRUCTURAL CHANGES; TERRAIN HEIGHTS; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS; TORRENTIAL RAINFALLS; TROPICAL CYCLONES;

RAIN;

KINEMATICS; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MODELING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADAR; RAINGAUGE; STORM TRACK; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TYPHOON;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 56849095412     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JAS2453.1     Document Type: Article

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