Role of land surface parameterizations on modeling cold-pooling events and low-level jets

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 147-161

  Prabha, Thara V ^a,b   Hoogenboom, Gerrit ^a,c   Smirnova, Tatiana G ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

^c WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Land surface model; Low level jet; Stable boundary layer; Weather Research and Forecasting model

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED RESEARCHES; BOUNDARY LAYER INTERACTION; COLD POOL; DOWN-SCALING; EXCHANGE OF ENERGY; GEORGIA; LAND SURFACE; LAND SURFACE MODELS; LAND SURFACE PARAMETERIZATION; LAND SURFACE SCHEME; LAND-SURFACE PROCESS; LOCAL SCALE; LOW LEVEL JET; LOWER BOUNDARY; MODEL ERRORS; MODEL EVALUATION; MOISTURE DISTRIBUTION; NUMERICAL MODELS; PARAMETERIZATIONS; RADIATIVE COOLING; SPATIAL SCALE; STABLE BOUNDARY LAYER; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; VERTICAL RESOLUTION; WEATHER FORECASTING MODEL; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; LAKES; PARAMETERIZATION; RESEARCH; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

BOUNDARY LAYER; JET; LAND SURFACE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; SIMULATION; TURBULENCE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

GEORGIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78649502798     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2010.09.017     Document Type: Article

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