Comparison and validation of two high-resolution weather forecast models at Frankfurt Airport

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 531-542

  Dengler, Klaus ^a   Keil, Christian ^a   Frech, Michael ^b   Gerz, Thomas ^a   Kober, Kirstin ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE WEATHER; AIR NAVIGATION SERVICE PROVIDERS; AIRPORT ENVIRONMENT; ALTITUDE RANGE; ERROR RANGE; FALSE ALARMS; FRANKFURT AIRPORT; GERMANY; HIGH-RESOLUTION WEATHER FORECASTS; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; IMPACT VARIABLES; KEY COMPONENT; MODEL OUTPUTS; NOWCASTING; OPERATIONAL FORECASTS; RAPID UPDATE CYCLES; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SMALL SCALE; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY; VERTICAL PROFILE; WAKE VORTEX; WEATHER PARAMETERS;

AIR NAVIGATION; AIRPORTS; ERROR STATISTICS; KINETIC ENERGY; WIND POWER;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIR TEMPERATURE; AIRPORT; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ERROR ANALYSIS; KINETIC ENERGY; MODEL VALIDATION; NOWCASTING; PREDICTION; TURBULENT FLOW; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND VELOCITY;

FRANKFURT; GERMANY;

EID: 77949417962     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2009/0399     Document Type: Article

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