Assessment of the Wind Gust Estimate Method in mesoscale modelling of storm events over West Germany

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 495-506

  Pinto, Joaquim G ^a   Neuhaus, Christian P ^a   Krüger, Andreas ^a   Kerschgens, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR PARCELS; ATMOSPHERIC MESOSCALE MODELS; CENTRAL EUROPE; GERMANY; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; LOW ALTITUDES; MESOSCALE MODEL; MESOSCALE MODELLING; MODEL SIMULATION; PARAMETERISATION; PHYSICALLY BASED; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; QUALITY PARAMETERS; SIMULATED STORMS; SPATIAL EVOLUTION; STORM EVENTS; SYNOPTIC STATION; TURBULENT EDDY; WIND GUST; WINTER STORMS;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

STORMS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BOUNDARY LAYER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; GUST; MESOSCALE EDDY; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MODEL VALIDATION; OROGRAPHY; PARAMETERIZATION; STORM; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND VELOCITY; WINTER;

GERMANY;

EID: 77949416156     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2009/0402     Document Type: Article

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