QNH: Mesoscale bounded derivative initialization and winter storm test over complex terrain

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 128, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1037-1051

  Lee, J L ^a,b   Macdonald, A E ^b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; STORM; WEATHER FORECASTING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034112304     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2000)128<1037:QMBDIA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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