A time-lagged ensemble simulation on the modulation of precipitation over west Java in January-February 2007

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 140, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 601-616

  Trilaksono, Nurjanna J ^a   Otsuka, Shigenori ^a   Yoden, Shigeo ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cold air surges; Ensembles; Flood events; Maritime continent; Precipitation; Vortices

Indexed keywords

COLD AIR; COLD SURGE; CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; DIURNAL CYCLE; ENSEMBLE FORECAST METHODS; ENSEMBLE MEMBERS; ENSEMBLE SIMULATION; ENSEMBLES; FLOOD EVENT; FLOOD EVENTS; HEAVY PRECIPITATION; HEAVY RAINFALL; INDONESIA; JAKARTA; MARITIME CONTINENT; NONHYDROSTATIC MODEL; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; RAINFALL RATES; SYNOPTIC CONDITIONS; TEMPORAL MODULATIONS; TIME-SCALES; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS;

FLOODS; MODULATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RAIN;

VORTEX FLOW;

ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; FLOODING; MONSOON; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PROBABILITY; RAINFALL; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR; TRMM; VORTEX FLOW;

INDONESIA; JAKARTA; WEST JAVA;

EID: 84857090349     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-11-00094.1     Document Type: Article

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