Forecasting near-surface weather conditions and precipitation in Alaska's Prince William Sound with the PWS-WRF modeling system

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 63, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Olsson, Peter Q ^a   Volz, Karl P ^a   Liu, Haibo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Model verification; North Gulf of Alaska; Prince William Sound; Quantitative precipitation forecasting; Surface winds; Weather research and forecasting model (WRF)

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; DISTURBANCE; FORECASTING METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PREDICTION; SURFACE WIND; TERRAIN; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ALASKA; GULF OF ALASKA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84880751682     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2011.12.012     Document Type: Article

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