Sensitivity of numerical weather forecasts to initial soil moisture variations in CFSv2

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1973-1983

  Dirmeyer, Paul A ^a   Halder, Subhadeep ^a  

^a CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

General circulation models; Model initialization; Numerical weather prediction forecasting; Soil moisture; Surface fluxes; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; EXPLOSIVES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SNOW; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE;

BOUNDARY LAYER DEVELOPMENT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; LAND-ATMOSPHERE COUPLINGS; MODEL INITIALIZATION; NEAR SURFACE TEMPERATURE; NUMERICAL WEATHER FORECASTS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION/FORECASTING; SURFACE FLUX;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

BOUNDARY LAYER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 85009455413     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: 15200434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-16-0049.1     Document Type: Article

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