Sensitivity of a spectrally filtered and nudged limited-area model to outer model options

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 529-547

  Waldron, Kim M ^a,b,c   Paegle, Jan ^a   Horel, John D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b USAF   (United States)

^c Offutt AFB   (United States)

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EID: 0000303010     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1996)124<0529:SOASFA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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