An improved scheme for interpolating between an atmospheric model and underlying surface grids near orography and ocean boundaries

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 128, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1177-1186

  Codron, Francis ^a   Vintzileos, Augustin ^a   Sadourny, Robert ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HEAT FLUX; HUMIDITY; INTERPOLATION; OROGRAPHY;

EID: 0034112490     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2000)128<1177:AISFIB>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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