A Tutorial on Lateral Boundary Conditions as a Basic and Potentially Serious Limitation to Regional Numerical Weather Prediction

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 78, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 2599-2617

  Warner, Thomas T ^a,b,e   Peterson, Ralph A ^c   Treadon, Russell E ^d  

^a NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^d GENERAL SCIENCES CORPORATION   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LATERAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; LIMITED AREA MODEL; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0031396788     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1997)078<2599:ATOLBC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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