Operational lee wave forecasting

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 23-35

  Shutts, Glenn ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING;

EIGENVALUE PROBLEM; INTERNAL GRAVITY WAVES; LARGE AMPLITUDE WAVES; NUMERICAL ALGORITHMS; OROGRAPHIC FORCING; RESONANT WAVELENGTHS; SOLUTION PROCEDURE; VERTICAL STRUCTURE EQUATIONS;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS;

EIGENVALUE; FORECASTING METHOD; FOURIER TRANSFORM; GRAVITY WAVE; LEE WAVE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGRAPHY;

EID: 0004978132     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1350482797000340     Document Type: Article

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