Regional climate modeling: Should one attempt improving on the large scales? Lateral boundary condition scheme: Any impact?

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 237-246

  Veljovic, Katarina ^a   Rajkovic, Borivoj ^a   Fennessy, Michael J ^b   Altshuler, Eric L ^b   Mesinger, Fedor ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

^c Bldg 142   (United States)

^d SERBIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS   (Serbia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRIVER MODELS; ENSEMBLE FORECASTS; EQUITABLE THREAT SCORE; FREQUENCY BIAS; JET STREAMS; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; LATERAL BOUNDARY; LATERAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; OUTFLOW BOUNDARY; POSITION ACCURACY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING; RELAXATION SCHEMES; WIND SPEED;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; EXPERIMENTS; FORECASTING;

CLIMATE MODELS;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLIMATE MODELING; DROUGHT; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; FLOOD; JET STREAM; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955647904     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2010/0460     Document Type: Article

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