Performance of the weather research and forecasting model for month-long pan-Arctic simulations

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 139, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3469-3488

  Cassano, John J ^a   Higgins, Matthew E ^a   Seefeldt, Mark W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALEUTIAN LOW; ARCTIC ATMOSPHERE; BAROTROPIC; DOMAIN SIZE; GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT; MODEL CONFIGURATION; MODEL DOMAINS; MODEL ERROR STATISTICS; NORTH PACIFIC; PAN-ARCTIC; REANALYSIS; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; WAVE NUMBERS; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

ATMOSPHERICS; ERROR STATISTICS; ERRORS; SEA LEVEL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; GEOPOTENTIAL; HEIGHT DETERMINATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SUBTROPICAL);

EID: 80455136701     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-10-05065.1     Document Type: Article

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