Improving the representation of resolved and unresolved topographic effects on surface wind in the wrf model

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 300-316

  Jiménez, Pedro A ^a,b   Dudhia, Jimy ^b  

^a CIEMAT   (Spain)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Mesoscale models; Model evaluation performance; Parameterization

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGICAL WINDS; GRID POINTS; IBERIAN PENINSULA; LAPLACIANS; LOW WIND SPEED; MESOSCALE MODEL; MODEL EVALUATION/PERFORMANCE; MOMENTUM FLUX; PARAMETERIZING; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SPEED OF THE FLOW; STANDARD DEVIATION; SUBGRID SCALE; SURFACE WIND SPEED; SURFACE WINDS; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS; TOPOGRAPHIC FEATURES; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS; WIND SPEED; WRF MODEL;

PARAMETERIZATION; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND EFFECTS;

LANDFORMS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LAPLACE TRANSFORM; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGRAPHY; PARAMETERIZATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; SURFACE WIND; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84857769190     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-11-084.1     Document Type: Article

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