A dynamically adapting weather and dispersion model: The operational multiscale environment model with grid adaptivity (OMEGA)

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 128, Issue 7 I, 2000, Pages 2044-2076

  Bacon, David P ^a   Ahmad, Nash'at N ^a   Boybeyi, Zafer ^a   Dunn, Thomas J ^a   Hall, Mary S ^a   Lee, Pius C S ^a   Sarma, R Ananthakrishna ^a   Turner, Mark D ^a   Waight III, Kenneth T ^b   Young, Steve H ^b   Zack, John W ^b  

^a SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b MESO Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0033825648     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2000)128<2044:ADAWAD>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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