Impacts of boundary layer parameterization schemes and air-sea coupling on WRF simulation of the East Asian summer monsoon

Science China Earth Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1480-1493

  Wang, ZiQian ^a,b,c   Duan, AnMin ^a   Wu, GuoXiong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

air sea coupling; boundary layer parameterization scheme; East Asian summer monsoon; WRF model

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; EXPERIMENTS; KINETICS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIR-SEA COUPLING; EAST ASIAN SUMMER MONSOON; PARAMETERIZATION SCHEMES; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING (RCM); SUMMER MONSOON PRECIPITATION; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS; WRF MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE MODELING; KINETIC ENERGY; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MONSOON; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA SURFACE; SUMMER; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CHINA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 84903212659     PISSN: 16747313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-013-4801-4     Document Type: Article

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