Simulations of Cyclone Sidr in the Bay of Bengal with a high-resolution model: Sensitivity to large-scale boundary forcing

Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 114, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 123-137

  Kumar, Anil ^a,b,c   Done, James ^a   Dudhia, Jimy ^a   Niyogi, Dev ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; STORM TRACK; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WEATHER FORECASTING; WESTERLY;

BAY OF BENGAL; INDIAN OCEAN;

ZIZIPHUS SPINA-CHRISTI;

EID: 80355133284     PISSN: 01777971     EISSN: 14365065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00703-011-0161-9     Document Type: Article

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