AROME-WMED, a real-time mesoscale model designed for the HyMeX special observation periods

Geoscientific Model Development

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1919-1941

  Fourrie N ^a   Bresson, E ^a   Nuret, M ^a   Jany, C ^a   Brousseau, P ^a   Doerenbecher, A ^a   Kreitz, M ^b   Nuissier, O ^a   Sevault, E ^a   Benichou H ^c   Amodei, M ^c   Pouponneau, F ^c  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c Direction des Opérations Pour la Prévision/COMPAS Météo France ^*  (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; DATA ASSIMILATION; DECISION MAKING; FIELD METHOD; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; INSTRUMENTATION; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MODEL TEST; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; REAL TIME; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

FRANCE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (WEST); SPAIN;

EID: 84934782965     PISSN: 1991959X     EISSN: 19919603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-8-1919-2015     Document Type: Article

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