Sensitivity of three Mediterranean heavy rain events to two different sea surface fluxes parameterizations in high-resolution numerical modeling

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 113, Issue 21, 2008, Pages

  Lebeaupin Brossier, Cindy ^a   Ducrocq, V ^a   Giordani, H ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; HEAT FLUX; JETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; WIND EFFECTS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; BOUNDARY LAYER; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MIXED LAYER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SEA SURFACE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURFACE FLUX; TOGA-COARE; WIND STRESS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 58249085398     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JD009613     Document Type: Article

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