Hindcasting the january 2009 arctic sudden stratospheric warming and its influence on the arctic oscillation with unified parameterization of orographic drag in NOGAPS. Part I: Extended-range stand-alone forecast

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1628-1644

  Kim, Young Joon ^a   Flatau, Maria ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic Oscillation; Forecasting techniques; Orographic effects; Parameterization; Stratospheric circulation

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC OSCILLATION; ARCTIC OSCILLATIONS; DATA ASSIMILATION; FORECASTING TECHNIQUES; GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT; HINDCASTING; HINDCASTS; MET OFFICE ANALYSIS; NAVY OPERATIONAL GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC PREDICTION SYSTEMS; NEW MODEL; OROGRAPHIC EFFECTS; PARAMETERIZATION SCHEMES; PLANETARY WAVE ACTIVITY; POLAR STRATOSPHERIC VORTEX; SALIENT FEATURES; STAND -ALONE; STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE COUPLING; STRATOSPHERIC CIRCULATIONS; STRATOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; SUBGRID SCALE; SUDDEN STRATOSPHERIC WARMING; TROPOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ZONAL WIND;

ATMOSPHERICS; DATA PROCESSING; DRAG; PARAMETERIZATION; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

ARCTIC OSCILLATION; DRAG; GEOPOTENTIAL; GLOBAL WARMING; HINDCASTING; OROGRAPHY; PARAMETERIZATION; PLANETARY WAVE; STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE INTERACTION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WEATHER FORECASTING; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 78650989777     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010WAF2222421.1     Document Type: Article

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