Development of a physically based dust emission module within the weather research and forecasting (WRF) model: Assessment of dust emission parameterizations and input parameters for source regions in central and east asia

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 114, Issue 14, 2009, Pages

  Darmenova, Kremena ^b   Sokolik, Irina N ^b   Shao, Yaping ^c   Marticorena, Beatrice ^a   Bergametti, Gilles ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RESEARCH; WEATHER FORECASTING;

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; DATA SETS; DUST EMISSION; DUST SOURCES; EAST ASIA; GLOBAL MODELS; INPUT PARAMETER; KEY INPUT; METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES; PARAMETERIZATIONS; PARTIAL DERIVATIVES; PHYSICALLY BASED; REGIONAL MODEL; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; SIMULATED DUST; SOURCE REGION; SPATIAL PATTERNS; TWO-STATE; VERTICAL FLUXES; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

DUST;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; DUST; PARAMETERIZATION; SIMULATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ASIA; CENTRAL ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 70350452923     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JD011236     Document Type: Article

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