WRF model sensitivity to choice of parameterization over South America: Validation against surface variables

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 3342-3355

  Ruiz, Juan J ^a   Saulo, Celeste ^a   Nogués Paegle, Julia ^b  

^a Centro de Investigacion del Mar y la Atmosfera   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEST ESTIMATES; BEST FIT; CONVERGENCE ZONES; DAY-TO-DAY VARIABILITY; DEWPOINT TEMPERATURE; FORECAST MODEL; GLOBAL DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; LAND MODEL; LAND SURFACE MODELS; LOCAL ERROR; LOW LEVEL JET; MODEL DESIGN; MODEL PERFORMANCE; MOISTURE ADVECTION; NONSYSTEMATIC ERRORS; PARAMETERIZATIONS; POSITIVE BIAS; REGIONAL CIRCULATION; REGIONAL MODEL; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTH ATLANTIC; STABLE STRATIFICATION; SUBGRID SCALE; SURFACE PROCESS; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SURFACE VARIABLES; SURFACE WINDS; WIND ERRORS; WRF MODEL;

CLIMATOLOGY; DATA PROCESSING; ERRORS; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PARAMETERIZATION; RAIN; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS; TURBULENT FLOW; WEATHER FORECASTING;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; LAND SURFACE; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOIL MOISTURE; STRATIFICATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 77958501167     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3358.1     Document Type: Article

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