Regional soil moisture biases and their influence on WRF model temperature forecasts over the intermountain west

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 197-216

  Massey, Jeffrey D ^a   Steenburgh, W James ^a   Knievel, Jason C ^b   Cheng, William Y Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Land surface model; Mesoscale models; Model errors; Model evaluation performance; Models and modeling; Single column models

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; ERRORS; FORECASTING; MOISTURE; NASA; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

LAND SURFACE MODELING; MESO-SCALE MODELS; MODEL ERRORS; MODEL EVALUATION/PERFORMANCE; SINGLE-COLUMN MODEL;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE MODELING; ERROR ANALYSIS; INTERMONTANE BASIN; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING BIAS; SOIL MOISTURE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84958958058     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: 15200434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-15-0073.1     Document Type: Article

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