Evaluation of NWP results for wintertime nocturnal boundary-layer temperatures over Europe and Finland

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 138, Issue 667, 2012, Pages 1440-1451

  Atlaskin, Evgeny ^a,b,c   Vihma, Timo ^a  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c RUSSIAN STATE HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Mesoscale observational network; Model verificationw; Numerical weather prediction; Stable boundary layer; Subgrid scale variability; Two metre temperature

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; DATA ASSIMILATION; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; FINLAND; FLAT TERRAINS; FORECAST SYSTEMS; FORECASTING SYSTEM; HELSINKI; HIGH-RESOLUTION LIMITED AREA MODELS; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; INITIAL CONDITIONS; MAJOR FACTORS; MESOSCALE; MODEL ERRORS; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; NEAR-NEUTRAL CONDITIONS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; STABLE BOUNDARY LAYER; SUBGRID SCALE; TEMPERATURE INVERSIONS; WINTER CONDITIONS;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); CLIMATOLOGY; TESTBEDS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIR TEMPERATURE; DATA ASSIMILATION; GPS; NOCTURNAL BOUNDARY LAYER; SPATIAL VARIATION; WEATHER FORECASTING; WINTER;

EUROPE; FINLAND;

EID: 84866150696     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.1885     Document Type: Article

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