Simulation of heavy rainfall events over Indian monsoon region using WRF-3DVAR data assimilation system

Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 107-125

  Routray, A ^a   Mohanty, U C ^a   Niyogi, Dev ^b   Rizvi, S R H ^c   Osuri, Krishna K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITION; DATA ASSIMILATION; MONSOON; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RADIOSONDE; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SIMULATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

INDIA;

EID: 77949272722     PISSN: 01777971     EISSN: 14365065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00703-009-0054-3     Document Type: Article

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