Predicting typhoon morakot's catastrophic rainfall with a convection-permitting mesoscale ensemble system

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1816-1825

  Zhang, Fuqing ^a   Weng, Yonghui ^a   Kuo, Ying Hwa ^b   Whitaker, Jeffery S ^c   Xie, Baoguo ^d  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Ensembles; Mesoscale systems; Numerical weather prediction forecasting; Rainfall; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

ENSEMBLES; MESO-SCALE SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION/FORECASTING; RAINFALL; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

DATA PROCESSING; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; HURRICANES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAIN; RISK MANAGEMENT; STORMS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CATASTROPHIC EVENT; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERTURBATION; PROBABILITY; RAINFALL; TYPHOON; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 78650995305     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010WAF2222414.1     Document Type: Article

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