Evaluating the performance of a WRF physics ensemble over South-East Australia

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1241-1258

  Evans, Jason P ^a   Ekström, Marie ^b   Ji, Fei ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENT AND HERITAGE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Ensemble; Physics parametrisation; Regional climate modelling; WRF

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84866388470     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1244-5     Document Type: Article

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