Impacts of soil heating condition on precipitation simulations in the weather research and forecasting model

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2263-2285

  Fan, Xingang ^a  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ENERGY STATUS; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; HEAVY RAINS; HORIZONTAL GRADIENTS; INITIAL TIME; LAND SURFACE MODELS; LOW LEVEL JET; LOWER BOUNDARY; LOWER BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; MOISTURE FLUXES; NEAR SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE; NEAR-SURFACE; POSITIVE VALUE; REANALYSIS; REGIONAL WEATHER; SENSIBLE AND LATENT HEAT FLUXES; SOIL HEATING; SOIL LAYER; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SURFACE EXCHANGES; SURFACE HEATING; THERMAL FIELD; UNDERLYING SURFACE; WEATHER AND CLIMATE FORECASTS; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; HEAT FLUX; HEATING; MOISTURE; SIMULATORS; SOILS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY CONDITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LAND SURFACE; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MOISTURE FLUX; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SOIL TEMPERATURE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 70350302251     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR2684.1     Document Type: Article

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