Influence of the details of topography on weather forecast – Evaluation of HARMONIE experiments in the sochi olympics domain over the Caucasian mountains

Frontiers in Earth Science

Volumn 4, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Rontu, Laura ^a   Wastl, Clemens ^b   Niemelä, Sami ^a  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b ZAMG Zentralanstalt fuer Meteorologie und Geodynamik   (Austria)

Author keywords

FROST 2014; Numerical weather prediction; Orographic effects; Parametrization; Radiation flux

Indexed keywords

FROST EFFECTS; LANDFORMS; RADIATION EFFECTS; SPORTS; TOPOGRAPHY;

FROST-2014; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; OROGRAPHIC EFFECTS; PARAMETRIZATIONS; RADIATION FLUXES;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EXPERIMENT; OLYMPIC GAMES; OROGRAPHY; PARAMETERIZATION; TOPOGRAPHY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CAUCASUS;

EID: 84994634379     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22966463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/feart.2016.00013     Document Type: Article

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