Analyses of the warm season rainfall climatology of the northeastern US using regional climate model simulations and radar rainfall fields

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 184-204

  Yeung, June K ^a   Smith, James A ^a   Villarini, Gabriele ^a   Ntelekos, Alexandros A ^c   Baeck, Mary Lynn ^a   Krajewski, Witold F ^b  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c Towers Watson   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Land atmospheric interactions; Orographic; Rainfall climatology; Weather research and forecasting model

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC INTERACTION; COMPLEX TERRAINS; CONVECTIVE AVAILABLE POTENTIAL ENERGIES; DIURNAL VARIABILITY; DIURNAL VARIATION; DOWNSCALING SIMULATIONS; FORT DIX; HEAVY RAINFALL; HIGH RESOLUTION RADAR; INTERANNUAL; LAND-SURFACE PROCESS; METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATION; MODEL CLIMATOLOGY; MODEL DOMAINS; MODEL SIMULATION; MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN; NEW JERSEY; NEW YORK; OROGRAPHIC; RADAR RAINFALL; RAINFALL CLIMATOLOGY; RAINFALL FIELDS; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATION; REGIONAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL GRADIENTS; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; STUDY AREAS; TEST TOOLS; WARM SEASON RAINFALL; WARM SEASONS; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS; WRF MODEL;

CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LANDFORMS; RADAR; RESEARCH; WEATHER FORECASTING;

RAIN;

AIR-SOIL INTERACTION; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METROPOLITAN AREA; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RADAR; REGIONAL CLIMATE; WARMING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 78751635171     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2010.10.005     Document Type: Article

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