Advances in predicting continental low stratus with a regional NWP model

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 290-302

  Kann, Alexander ^a   Seidl, Harald ^a   Wittmann, Christoph ^a   Haiden, Thomas ^a  

^a ZAMG Zentralanstalt fuer Meteorologie und Geodynamik   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPINE REGIONS; ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; HUMIDITY PROFILE; INITIAL STATE; LIMITED AREA MODELS; MODEL INTEGRATION; MODIFIED MODEL; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; NWP MODEL; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; REFERENCE MODELS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE FORECASTS; TEMPERATURE PREDICTION; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; VERTICAL PROFILE; VERTICAL TEMPERATURE; WEATHER PHENOMENA; WEATHER PREDICTION;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CLIMATOLOGY; FEEDBACK; MOISTURE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLOUDS;

CLOUD COVER; FOG; MODELING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STRATUS; VERTICAL PROFILE; WEATHER FORECASTING; WINTER;

EID: 77953559675     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009WAF2222314.1     Document Type: Article

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