Intercomparison of mesoscale model simulations of the daytime valley wind system

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 139, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1389-1409

  Schmidli, Juerg ^a,b   Billings, Brian ^c,d   Chow, Fotini K ^e   de Wekker, Stephan F J ^f   Doyle, James ^d   Grubišić, Vanda ^c,g   Holt, Teddy ^d   Jiang, Qiangfang ^d   Lundquist, Katherine A ^e   Sheridan, Peter ^h   Vosper, Simon ^h   Whiteman, C David ⁱ   Wyszogrodzki, Andrzej A ^a   Zängl, Günther ^j  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^c DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^h MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^j DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

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Author keywords

Mesoscale models; Orographic effects; Winds

Indexed keywords

CROSS SECTION; DYNAMICAL CORE; INDIVIDUAL MODELS; INTERCOMPARISONS; LAND-SURFACE PROCESS; LATERAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; MESOSCALE MODEL; MESOSCALE MODEL SIMULATION; MESOSCALE NUMERICAL MODEL; NONHYDROSTATIC MESOSCALE MODELS; OROGRAPHIC EFFECTS; PARAMETERIZATIONS; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SURFACE WIND SPEED; TESTING AND EVALUATION; THERMALLY INDUCED; THREE DIMENSIONAL SIMULATIONS; TIME SHIFTS; TURBULENCE PARAMETERIZATION; VALLEY WINDS;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; HEAT FLUX; PARAMETERIZATION; RADIATION EFFECTS; RAIN; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE TESTING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

LANDFORMS;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; BOUNDARY LAYER; ENERGY BALANCE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; PARAMETERIZATION; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SURFACE ENERGY; SURFACE WIND; VALLEY; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 79958755421     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3523.1     Document Type: Article

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