Impacts of the high-resolution sea surface temperature distribution on modeled snowfall formation over the yellow sea during a cold-air outbreak

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 487-503

  Cha, Yeong Min ^a   Lee, Hwa Woon ^b   Lee, Soon Hwan ^b  

^a Meteorological Research Institute   (South Korea)

^b Pusan National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

CAPE; Clouds; Cold air surges; Sea surface temperature; Snowfall

Indexed keywords

CAPE; CLOUD STREETS; COLD AIR; COLD-AIR OUTBREAKS; DATA SETS; HIGH RESOLUTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS; YELLOW SEA;

SEA ICE; SNOW; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; COLD AIR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SNOW; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

KOREA; PACIFIC OCEAN; YELLOW SEA;

EID: 80052424421     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-10-05019.1     Document Type: Article

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