Forecasting hail using a one-dimensional hail growth model within WRF

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 144, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 4919-4939

  Adams Selin, Rebecca D ^a   Ziegler, Conrad L ^b  

^a ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud microphysics; Hail; Numerical weather prediction forecasting; Parameterization

Indexed keywords

PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ADVANCED RESEARCHES; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; COLLECTION EFFICIENCY; GROWTH MODELING; GROWTH REGIME; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION/FORECASTING; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; HAIL; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; UPDRAFT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 85027717421     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-16-0027.1     Document Type: Article

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