The impact of forcing datasets on the high-resolution simulation of tropical storm ivan (2004) in the southern appalachians

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 140, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 3300-3326

  Sun, Xiaoming ^a   Barros, Ana P ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Hurricanes typhoons; Mesoscale models; Model evaluation performance; Mountain meteorology; North America; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

ALABAMA; APPALACHIANS; DATA SETS; FORCED SIMULATION; GLOBAL ANALYSIS; HIGH RESOLUTION SIMULATIONS; MESOSCALE MODEL; MODEL EVALUATION; NORTH AMERICA; NORTH AMERICAN; RAIN GAUGES; RAINBANDS; REANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL FILTERINGS; STORM STRUCTURE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS LENGTH; SURFACE WIND FIELDS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL STORMS; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

HURRICANES; RAIN; STORMS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA SET; HURRICANE IVAN 2004; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ALABAMA; APPALACHIANS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84867963742     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-11-00345.1     Document Type: Article

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