Post-frontal shower cells in the COSMO-DE model. A comparison with radar measurements

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 217-226

  Herbort, Florian ^a   Etling, Dieter ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; DEEP MOIST CONVECTION; GROUND BASED; HIGH RESOLUTION; HORIZONTAL GRID; MACROSTRUCTURES; MODEL PERFORMANCE; MODEL SIMULATION; MODEL VERIFICATION; NWP MODEL; PRECIPITATION FORECAST; RADAR OBSERVATIONS; RAIN CELLS; RAIN MEASUREMENT; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; TEMPORAL STRUCTURES; TIME INTERVAL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; RADAR; RAIN; WEATHER FORECASTING;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RADAR; RAINFALL; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 80051696571     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2011/0214     Document Type: Article

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