Meteorological Model Evaluation for CalNex 2010

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 140, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3885-3906

  Angevine, Wayne M ^a,b   Eddington, Lee ^c   Durkee, Kevin ^d   Fairall, Chris ^b   Bianco, Laura ^a,b   Brioude, Jerome ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

^d SOUTH COAST AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT DISTRICT   (United States)

Author keywords

Air quality; Boundary layer; Cloud parameterizations; Land surface model; Mesoscale models; Model evaluation performance

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIS; BOUNDARY LAYER STRUCTURE; CLOUDY BOUNDARY LAYERS; COUPLED OCEAN ATMOSPHERE MESOSCALE PREDICTION SYSTEM; DIURNAL CYCLE; ECMWF RE-ANALYSIS; GRID-SPACINGS; LAND SURFACE MODELS; LOS ANGELES; LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTS; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGICAL MODEL; MESOSCALE MODEL; METEOROLOGICAL MODELS; MODEL CONFIGURATION; MODEL EVALUATION; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; PROCESS FLOWS; RESEARCH VESSELS; SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY; SATELLITE IMAGES; SIMULATION PERFORMANCE; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS; WIND DIRECTIONS; WIND PROFILER; WIND SPEED; WIND SPEED AND DIRECTIONS;

AIR QUALITY; BOUNDARY LAYERS; RESEARCH; SHIPS; WIND EFFECTS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIR QUALITY; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLOUD; COASTAL ZONE; LAND SURFACE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND DIRECTION; WIND VELOCITY;

CALIFORNIA; CHANNEL ISLANDS [CALIFORNIA]; LOS ANGELES [CALIFORNIA]; SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY; SAN NICOLAS ISLAND; UNITED STATES;

POLYGALA INCARNATA;

EID: 84866543941     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00042.1     Document Type: Article

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