Predictability of a nested limited-area model

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 128, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 4149-4154

  Laprise, René ^a   Varma, Mundakkara Ravi ^b,c   Denis, Bertrand ^a,b   Caya, Daniel ^a   Zawadzki, Isztar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; MODEL VALIDATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0034463813     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2000)129<4149:POANLA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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