Simulation of the summer monsoon rainfall over East Asia using the NCEP GFS cumulus parameterization at different horizontal resolutions

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1143-1154

  Lim, Kyo Sun Sunny ^a   Hong, Song You ^b,d   Yoon, Jin Ho ^a   Han, Jongil ^c  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^c CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^d Korea Institute of Atmospheric Prediction Systems   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLOUDS; FORECASTING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RAIN; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER MODIFICATION;

CUMULUS PARAMETERIZATION; CUMULUS PARAMETERIZATION SCHEMES; EAST ASIAN SUMMER MONSOON; GLOBAL FORECAST SYSTEMS; HORIZONTAL GRID SPACING; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; SUMMER MONSOON RAINFALL; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; CUMULUS; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SUMMER; WEATHER FORECASTING;

FAR EAST;

EID: 84910609201     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: 15200434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-13-00143.1     Document Type: Article

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