The role of Typhoon Songda (2004) in producing distantly located heavy rainfall in Japan

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3811-3822

  Wang, Yongqing ^a,b   Wang, Yuqing ^a,b   Fudeyasu, Hironori ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED RESEARCHES; CONTROL EXPERIMENTS; EXTREME PRECIPITATION; HEAVY PRECIPITATION; HEAVY RAINFALL; INITIAL TIME; LATERAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; MOISTURE TRANSPORT; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OROGRAPHIC FORCING; SMOOTHING ALGORITHMS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STORM INTENSITY; TYPHOON CENTER; WEATHER RESEARCH; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC; WRF MODEL;

HURRICANES; RAIN; STORMS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EXPERIMENTS;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; TYPHOON; WEATHER FORECASTING;

JAPAN;

EID: 77649304219     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR2893.1     Document Type: Article

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