The impacts of indirect soil moisture assimilation and direct surface temperature and humidity assimilation on a mesoscale model simulation of an Indian monsoon depression

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1393-1412

  Vinodkumar, ^a   Chandrasekar, A ^a   Alapaty, K ^b,d   Niyogi, Dev ^c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d U S DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COASTAL ZONES; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GROUNDWATER; INFRARED TELEVISION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; METEOROLOGY; MOISTURE; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PERMITTIVITY; RADIOSONDES; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

BAY OF BENGAL; COASTAL REGIONS; CYCLONIC CIRCULATIONS; DIMENSIONAL DATUMS; FIELD CAMPAIGNS; IMPROVED MODELS; INDIAN MONSOONS; MESOSCALE MODEL SIMULATIONS; MESOSCALE MODELS; MONSOON DEPRESSIONS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITIES; QUIKSCAT; RE ANALYSES; RMS ERRORS; SCATTEROMETER; SOIL TEMPERATURES; SPATIAL AREAS; SURFACE DATUMS; SURFACE HUMIDITIES; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SURFACE WINDS; TELEVISION INFRARED OBSERVATION SATELLITES; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS;

SOIL SURVEYS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MONSOON; RADIOSONDE; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE WIND;

BAY OF BENGAL; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 57649174637     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JAMC1599.1     Document Type: Article

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