Impact of physics representations in the HWRFX on simulated hurricane structure and pressure-wind relationships

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 140, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 3278-3299

  Bao, Jian Wen ^a   Gopalakrishnan, S G ^b   Michelson, S A ^a,c   Marks, F D ^b   Montgomery, M T ^b,d  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Model evaluation performance; Numerical weather prediction forecasting; Parameterization

Indexed keywords

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CONVECTION PARAMETERIZATION; DIABATIC HEATING; FORECASTING MODELS; KEY PARAMETERS; MATERIAL ACCELERATION; MICROPHYSICS; MICROPHYSICS PARAMETERIZATION; MODEL EVALUATION; MODEL PHYSICS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; PARAMETERIZATION SCHEMES; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER; SUB-GRIDS; SUBGRID TURBULENCE; TANGENTIAL WIND; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VORTEX STRUCTURES;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; EXPERIMENTS; HURRICANES; MIXING; PARAMETERIZATION; PHYSICS; SEA LEVEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

AZIMUTH; HURRICANE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84867977277     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-11-00332.1     Document Type: Article

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