The impacts of Taiwan topography on the predictability of Typhoon Morakot's record-breaking rainfall: A high-resolution ensemble simulation

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 613-633

  Fang, Xingqin ^a,b   Kuo, Ying Hwa ^b   Wang, Anyu ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Ensembles; Forecast verification; Mesoscale forecasting; Numerical weather prediction forecasting; Probability forecasts models distribution; Rainfall; Short range prediction

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATED RAINFALL; ACCURATE PREDICTION; ADVANCED RESEARCHES; ENSEMBLE FORECAST SYSTEMS; ENSEMBLE PREDICTION; ENSEMBLE SIMULATION; ENSEMBLES; EXTREME RAINFALL; HEAVY PRECIPITATION; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; INITIAL STATE; MESOSCALE; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; OROGRAPHIC INFLUENCES; OROGRAPHIC PRECIPITATION; PROBABILISTIC PREDICTION; PROBABILITY FORECASTS/MODELS/DISTRIBUTION; RAINFALL DISTRIBUTION; RAINFALL PREDICTION; RAINFALL VARIABILITY; SALIENT FEATURES; SOUTHERN TAIWAN; SPECIFIC LOCATION; STORM INTENSITY; STORM TRACK; TOTAL RAINFALL; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HURRICANES; STORMS; TOPOGRAPHY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

RAIN;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; EXTREME EVENT; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; RAINFALL; STORM TRACK; TERRAIN; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; TYPHOON; WEATHER FORECASTING;

TAIWAN;

EID: 81855161311     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-10-05020.1     Document Type: Article

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