Improving multimodel forecasts of the vertical distribution of heating using the TRMM profiles

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1079-1094

  Krishnamurti, T N ^a   Chakraborty, Arindam ^b   Mishra, A K ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIAS ERROR; CUMULUS PARAMETERIZATION; DATA SETS; DIABATIC HEATING; FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC MODELS; HEAT SOURCES; INITIAL STATE; MASS FLUX; MICROWAVE RADIANCES; MODEL ERRORS; MODEL PHYSICS; MODELING ERRORS; MOISTURE BUDGET; MOISTURE CONVERGENCE; MULTI-MODEL; MULTI-MODEL SUPERENSEMBLE; NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATIONS; NEW PRODUCT; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTATIONS; PRECIPITATION RADAR; RAIN RATES; STATISTICAL DATABASE; TRAINING PHASE; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS; VERTICAL COLUMNS; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; VERTICAL PROFILE;

BUDGET CONTROL; CLOUDS; ERRORS; EXPERIMENTS; HEAT FLUX; MOISTURE; NASA; PARAMETERIZATION; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

HEATING;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CUMULUS; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; FORECASTING METHOD; HEATING; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PARAMETERIZATION; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 77953673915     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI2878.1     Document Type: Article

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