Simulating the IHOP_2002 Fair-weather CBL with the WRF-ARW-Noah modeling system. Part II: Structures from a few kilometers to 100 km across

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 745-764

  Lemone, Margaret A ^a   Chen, Fei ^a   Tewari, Mukul ^a   Dudhia, Jimy ^a   Geerts, Bart ^b   Miao, Qun ^b   Coulter, Richard L ^c   Grossman, Robert L ^d  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Colorado Research Associates ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED RESEARCHES; CLOUD STREETS; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYERS; GAIN INSIGHT; GRID-SPACINGS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH-RESOLUTION MODELS; LAND DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; LAND SURFACE MODELS; MAXIMUM AMPLITUDE; MESOSCALE CIRCULATION; MESOSCALE VERTICAL VELOCITY; MODEL AND OBSERVATION; MODELING SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OBUKHOV LENGTH; ROLL AXIS; SATELLITE IMAGES; SENSITIVITY TESTS; SOUTHEAST KANSAS; SURFACE INFLUENCES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURES; WEATHER DATA; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; DATA PROCESSING; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; ROADS AND STREETS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE MODELING; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; FORECASTING METHOD; GRAVITY WAVE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

KANSAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77953220540     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR3004.1     Document Type: Article

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