Object-based analysis and verification of WRF model precipitation in the low- and midlatitude Pacific Ocean

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 4561-4575

  Skok, Gregor ^a   Tribbia, Joe ^b   Rakovec, Jože ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Model evaluation performance; Pacific Ocean; Precipitation; Satellite observations

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL MEAN PRECIPITATION; CHANNEL SIMULATION; DATA SETS; EXTENDED VERSIONS; HOURLY PRECIPITATIONS; LIFE SPAN; MIDLATITUDES; OBJECT BASED; OBJECT TRAJECTORIES; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRECIPITATION; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS; WRF MODEL;

OCEANOGRAPHY; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; SATELLITES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA SET; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SATELLITE IMAGERY; SMOOTHING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 78651098105     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3472.1     Document Type: Article

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