The role of horizontal resolution for polar low simulations

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 137, Issue 660, 2011, Pages 1674-1687

  Mcinnes, Harold ^a   Kristiansen, Jørn ^b   Kristjánsson, Jón Egill ^a   Schyberg, Harald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Horizontal resolution; IPY Thorpex; Latent heat; Polar low

Indexed keywords

DIABATIC HEATING; FIELD CAMPAIGN; HIGHER RESOLUTION; HORIZONTAL GRID SPACING; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; IMPROVED MODELS; INITIAL CONDITIONS; IPY-THORPEX; LATERAL BOUNDARY; MESOSCALE CYCLONES; MODEL PERFORMANCE; MODEL RESULTS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; POLAR LOW; POLAR LOWS; POLAR REGIONS; SPATIAL SCALE;

HEATING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STORMS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYCLONE; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLAR METEOROLOGY; THERMAL CONVECTION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 80052532882     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.849     Document Type: Article

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