Evaluation of polar wrf from modeling the atmospheric boundary layer over antarctic sea ice in autumn and winter

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 140, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3907-3918

  Tastula, Esa matti ^a   Vihma, Timo ^b   Andreas, Eedgar L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c NORTHWEST RESEARCH ASSOCIATES   (United States)

Author keywords

Mesoscale models; Model errors; Parameterization; Subgrid scale processes

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC SEA ICE; CLOUD FRACTION; LONG-WAVE RADIATION; LOW LEVEL JET; MESOSCALE MODEL; MODEL ERRORS; RADIO SOUNDINGS; ROOT-MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SUBGRID SCALE; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE INVERSIONS; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING; WIND SPEED;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; PARAMETERIZATION; RAIN; SEA ICE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; AUTUMN; BOUNDARY LAYER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LATENT HEAT FLUX; LONGWAVE RADIATION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MODEL VALIDATION; POLAR METEOROLOGY; SEA ICE; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND VELOCITY; WINTER;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84871949836     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00016.1     Document Type: Article

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