Alleviation of stationary biases in a GCM through a mountain drag parameterization scheme and a simple representation of mountain lift forces

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 788-801

  Lott, François ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAG; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OROGRAPHY; PARAMETERIZATION; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

EID: 0032693175     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1999)127<0788:AOSBIA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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