Temporal changes in wind as objects for evaluating mesoscale numerical weather prediction

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1374-1389

  Rife, Daran L ^a   Davis, Christopher A ^a   Knievel, Jason C ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRID POINTS; HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; MESOSCALE; MESOSCALE MODEL; MODEL DOMAINS; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCHES; NEW MEXICO; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY; SPACE AND TIME; SPATIAL CLUSTER; SURFACE WINDS; TEMPORAL CHANGE; TEMPORAL OBJECTS; VECTOR WIND; WIND EVENTS;

CLIMATOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

BOUNDARY LAYERS;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SIMULATION; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND DIRECTION;

NEW MEXICO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 74549220344     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009WAF2222223.1     Document Type: Article

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