High resolution WRF ensemble forecasting for irrigation: Multi-variable evaluation

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 167, Issue , 2016, Pages 156-174

  Kioutsioukis, Ioannis ^a   de Meij, Alexander ^b   Jakobs, Hermann ^c   Katragkou, Eleni ^a,d   Vinuesa, Jean Francois ^b   Kazantzidis, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b NOVELTIS Sustainable Development ^*  (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^d ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Convection allowing resolution; ENORASIS; Evapotranspiration; Forecast verification; Irrigation water; WRF ensemble

Indexed keywords

BALLOONS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FORECASTING; MULTIVARIABLE SYSTEMS; RAIN; WATER; WATER SUPPLY; WIND;

CONVECTIVE PRECIPITATION; ENORASIS; FORECAST VERIFICATIONS; IRRIGATION WATERS; LARGE-SCALE PRECIPITATION; METEOROLOGICAL SIMULATIONS; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; WRF ENSEMBLE;

IRRIGATION;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; RAINFALL; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SOLAR RADIATION; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84941283823     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2015.07.015     Document Type: Article

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