Assessment of a gravity-wave drag parametrization with PYREX data

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 124, Issue 549, 1998, Pages 1443-1464

  Beau, Isabelle ^a   Bougeault, Philippe ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITY WAVE; OROGRAPHY; PARAMETRIZATION;

EID: 0031766939     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/smsqj.54905     Document Type: Article

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