Evaluation of planetary boundary layer parameterizations in tropical cyclones by comparison of in situ observations and high-resolution simulations of Hurricane Isabel (2003). Part I: Initialization, maximum winds, and the outer-core boundary layer

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3651-3674

  Nolan, David S ^a   Zhang, Jun A ^b   Stern, Daniel P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE BOUNDARY; COUPLED BOUNDARY LAYERS; FORECAST MODEL; HIGH RESOLUTION SIMULATIONS; HURRICANE ISABEL; IN-SITU DATA; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; MINIMUM SURFACES; MIXED LAYER OCEAN MODELS; MODEL DOMAINS; PARAMETER CHOICE; PARAMETERIZATIONS; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; ROUGHNESS LENGTH; SURFACE WIND SPEED; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VERTICAL FLUXES; VERTICAL RESOLUTION; YONSEI UNIVERSITY;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; EXPERIMENTS; HURRICANES; OCEANOGRAPHY;

PARAMETERIZATION;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BOUNDARY LAYER; HURRICANE ISABEL 2003; PARAMETERIZATION; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 77649276736     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR2785.1     Document Type: Article

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