Temporal accumulation of first-order linearization error for semi-Lagrangian passive advection

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 125, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1296-1311

  Tanguay, Monique ^a   Polavarapu, Saroja ^a   Gauthier, Pierre ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

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EID: 0012927653     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1997)125<1296:TAOFOL>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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