Application of an adiabatic WRF adjoint to the investigation of the May 2004 McMurdo, Antarctica, severe wind event

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3696-3713

  Xiao, Qingnong ^a   Kuo, Ying Hwa ^a   Ma, Zaizhong ^a   Huang, Wei ^a   Huang, Xiang Yu ^a   Zhang, Xiaoyan ^a   Barker, Dale M ^a   Michalakes, John ^a   Dudhia, Jimy ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); FORECASTING; LANDFORMS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ADJOINT; ADVANCED RESEARCHES; ANTARCTIC MESOSCALE PREDICTION SYSTEMS; ANTARCTICA; ATMOSPHERIC STRATIFICATIONS; AUTOMATIC DIFFERENTIATION TOOLS; DOMAIN CONFIGURATIONS; DYNAMIC CORES; FORTRANS; GRADIENT INFORMATIONS; LINEARITY TESTS; MODEL INITIAL CONDITIONS; MODELING SYSTEMS; PSEUDO-OBSERVATIONS; ROSS ICE SHELVES; SENSITIVITY REGIONS; SENSITIVITY STUDIES; SEVERE WINDSTORMS; SOUTH POLES; VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATIONS; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS; WIND EVENTS;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ADJOINT METHOD; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEVERE WEATHER; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; MCMURDO STATION; ROSS ICE SHELF; SOUTH POLE; TRANSANTARCTIC MOUNTAINS; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 57149139705     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2235.1     Document Type: Article

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