A spectral nudging technique for dynamical downscaling purposes

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 128, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 3664-3673

  Von Storch, Hans ^a   Langenberg, Heike ^a   Feser, Frauke ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0033651962     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2000)128<3664:ASNTFD>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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