Coordinate transformation on a sphere using conformal mapping

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 127, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 2733-2740

  Bentsen, M ^a   Evensen, G ^a   Drange, H ^a   Jenkins, A D ^a  

^a NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COORDINATE; MAPPING; OCEANIC CIRCULATION;

EID: 0033507450     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1999)127<2733:CTOASU>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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