Assessment of numerical weather forecasts against observations from Cardington: Seasonal diurnal cycles of screen-level and surface temperatures and surface fluxes

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 137, Issue 656, 2011, Pages 656-672

  Edwards, J M ^a   Mcgregor, J R ^a   Bush, M R ^a   Bornemann, F J ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

MetUM; Near surface observations; NWP; Surface flux budget

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL CYCLE; DIURNAL CYCLE; FORECASTING SYSTEM; HIGH RESOLUTION; LIGHT WIND; METUM; NEAR-SURFACE; NEAR-SURFACE MEASUREMENTS; NUMERICAL WEATHER FORECASTS; NWP; SCREEN TEMPERATURE; SURFACE COOLING; SURFACE FLUX; SURFACE FLUX BUDGET; SURFACE LAYERS; SURFACE SKIN TEMPERATURE; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; UNIFIED MODEL;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BUDGET CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RATING; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ANNUAL VARIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LATENT HEAT FLUX; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SURFACE FLUX; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

BEDFORDSHIRE; CARDINGTON; ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 79955402226     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.742     Document Type: Article

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