Spectral decomposition of two-dimensional atmospheric fields on limited-area domains using the discrete cosine transform (DCT)

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 130, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1812-1829

  Denis, Bertrand ^a   Côté, Jean ^a   Laprise, René ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DECOMPOSITION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; KINETIC ENERGY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ATMOSPHERIC FIELDS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE MODELING; FOURIER TRANSFORM; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036646448     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2002)130<1812:SDOTDA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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