The impact of positive-definite moisture advection and low-level moisture flux bias over orography

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 3055-3071

  Hahn, Robert S ^a   Mass, Clifford F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD LIQUID WATERS; HIGH FREQUENCY; MICROPHYSICAL PARAMETERIZATION; MICROPHYSICS; MODEL RESOLUTION; MOISTURE ADVECTION; MOISTURE FLUXES; NUMERICAL SCHEME; OROGRAPHIC PRECIPITATION; POTENTIAL SOURCES; PRECIPITATION VERIFICATION; THOMPSON; TOTAL PRECIPITATION; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

ADVECTION; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANTS; STORMS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

MOISTURE;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD WATER; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; MOISTURE FLUX; NUMERICAL METHOD; OROGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STORM; WEATHER FORECASTING;

NORTH AMERICA; OREGON; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70350784288     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR2873.1     Document Type: Article

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