Sub-kilometer dynamical downscaling of near-surface winds in complex terrain using WRF and MM5 mesoscale models

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 117, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Horvath, Kristian ^a   Koracin, Darko ^b   Vellore, Ramesh ^b,c   Jiang, Jinhua ^b   Belu, Radian ^d  

^a METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL SERVICE   (Croatia)

^b DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

^d DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DISPERSION; BOUNDARY LAYERS; FREQUENCY BANDS; RAIN; SHEAR FLOW; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND EFFECTS;

COMPLEX TERRAINS; DISPERSION ERROR; DIURNAL PERIOD; DYNAMICAL DOWNSCALING; GRID-SPACINGS; HORIZONTAL GRID SPACING; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; LATERAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; LOWER BOUNDARY; MEAN WIND SPEED; MESOSCALE MODEL; MIXED LAYER; MODELING RESULTS; NEAR-SURFACE WINDS; ROOT-MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SPECTRAL ACCURACY; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; THERMALLY DRIVEN; TURBULENT EDDY; VERTICAL WIND SHEAR; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING; WIND SPEED;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPLEX TERRAIN; DIURNAL VARIATION; DOWNSCALING; ERROR ANALYSIS; KINETIC ENERGY; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND PROFILE; WIND SHEAR; WIND VELOCITY;

NEVADA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84862301255     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JD017432     Document Type: Article

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