Sensitivity of quantitative precipitation forecast to soil moisture initialization and microphysics parametrization

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 136, Issue 649, 2010, Pages 978-996

  van Weverberg, Kwinten ^a   van Lipzig, Nicole P M ^a   Delobbe, Laurent ^b   Lauwaet, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF BELGIUM   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Atmospheric modelling; Extreme convection

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED REGIONAL PREDICTION SYSTEMS; ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; ATMOSPHERIC MODELLING; BELGIUM; DIFFERENT PROCESS; DIFFERENT SIZES; HIGH RESOLUTION; INVERSE RELATIONS; MICROPHYSICS PARAMETRIZATION; MOIST PROCESS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; PARAMETRIZATIONS; PRECIPITATION FORECAST; QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION FORECAST; REALISTIC SIMULATION; SOIL MOISTURE CONTENT; STORM STRUCTURE; SURFACE PRECIPITATION; VERTICAL WIND SHEAR;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; BUOYANCY; CLOUDS; EXPERIMENTS; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PHYSICS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SIZE DETERMINATION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL MOISTURE;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BUOYANCY FORCING; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND SHEAR;

BELGIUM;

EID: 77954508635     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.611     Document Type: Article

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