Disaggregation of screen-level variables in a numerical weather prediction model with an explicit simulation of subgrid-scale land-surface heterogeneity

Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 116, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 81-94

  Schomburg, A ^a,b   Venema, V ^a   Ament, F ^c   Simmer, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; DOWNSCALING; HETEROGENEITY; INTERPOLATION; LAND COVER; LAND SURFACE; LATENT HEAT FLUX; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGRAPHY; PARAMETERIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; STOCHASTICITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84860445901     PISSN: 01777971     EISSN: 14365065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00703-012-0183-y     Document Type: Article

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