A study of the spurious orographic resonance in semi-implicit semi-Lagrangian models

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 128, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1982-1989

  Lindberg, Karina ^a   Alexeev, Vladimir A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

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Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; RESONANCE;

EID: 0033942740     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2000)128<1982:ASOTSO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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