Error Characteristics of Two Grid Refinement Approaches in Aquaplanet Simulations: MPAS-A and WRF

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 3022-3036

  Hagos, Samson ^a   Leung, Ruby ^a   Rauscher, Sara A ^b   Ringler, Todd ^b  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR CHARACTERISTICS; HIGH RESOLUTION SIMULATIONS; LIMITED AREA MODELS; PROPAGATION CHARACTERISTICS; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING; VARIABLE RESOLUTION; VARIABLE-RESOLUTION MODELING; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUATORIAL WAVE; ERROR ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; ROSSBY WAVE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84883766100     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00338.1     Document Type: Article

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