Impacts of parameterized orographic drag on the Northern Hemisphere winter circulation

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 196-211

  Sandu, Irina ^a   Bechtold, Peter ^a   Beljaars, Anton ^a   Bozzo, Alessio ^a   Pithan, Felix ^b   Shepherd, Theodore G ^b   Zadra, Ayrton ^c  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

large scale circulation; orographic drag

Indexed keywords

DRAG; PARAMETERIZATION; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TIME MEASUREMENT; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

INTERCOMPARISON EXERCISE; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTATIONS; SEASONAL INTEGRATION; WEATHER FORECAST MODELS; WINTER CIRCULATION;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CIRCULATION MODELING; DRAG; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; PARAMETERIZATION; PARTITIONING; PLANETARY WAVE; RESOLUTION; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 84957677857     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19422466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015MS000564     Document Type: Article

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