The impact of large-scale forcing on skill of simulated convective initiation and upscale evolution with convection-allowing grid spacings in the WRF

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 994-1018

  Duda, Jeffrey D ^a,b   Gallus, William A ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE DISPLACEMENT; CONVECTIVE INITIATION; CONVECTIVE STORMS; EQUITABLE THREAT SCORE; MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION FORECAST; SMALL-SCALE FEATURES; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERRORS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

STORMS;

CLIMATE FORCING; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84883886014     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: 15200434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-13-00005.1     Document Type: Article

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