Metrics and diagnostics for precipitation-related processes in climate model short-range hindcasts

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1516-1534

  Ma, H Y ^a   Xie, S ^a   Boyle, J S ^a   Klein, S A ^a   Zhang, Y ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnostics; Hindcasts; Model evaluation performance; Precipitation; Short range prediction; Tropics

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE SIMULATION; DEEP CONVECTION; FAST PROCESS; HINDCASTS; INTENSE PRECIPITATION; INTERCOMPARISONS; LOWER PROBABILITIES; MODEL EVALUATION/PERFORMANCE; MOIST PROCESS; MOIST STATIC ENERGY; OPERATIONAL ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; REGIONAL ANALYSIS; SHORT-RANGE PREDICTIONS; TIME-SCALES; TROPICAL CONVECTION; TROPICAL PRECIPITATION; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS;

CLIMATE MODELS; MOISTURE; PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RAIN GAGES; REGIONAL PLANNING; TROPICS;

LASERS;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATE MODELING; HINDCASTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; TIMESCALE; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; TROPOSPHERE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84874795692     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00235.1     Document Type: Article

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