Subkilometer numerical weather prediction in an urban coastal area: A case study over the vancouver metropolitan area

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1433-1453

  Leroyer, Sylvie ^a   Bélair, Stéphane ^a   Husain, Syed Z ^a   Mailhot, Jocelyn ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPLEX NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTION; METROPOLITAN AREA; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; SEA BREEZE CIRCULATION; URBAN BOUNDARY LAYERS; VANCOUVER , BRITISH COLUMBIA;

COASTAL ZONES;

AIRFLOW; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; COASTAL ZONE; METROPOLITAN AREA; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA BREEZE; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; URBAN CLIMATE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; VANCOUVER [BRITISH COLUMBIA];

EID: 84901481319     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-13-0202.1     Document Type: Article

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