RAMS 2001: Current status and future directions

Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 1-4, 2003, Pages 5-29

  Cotton, William R ^a   Pielke Sr , R A ^a   Walko, R L ^b   Liston, G E ^a   Tremback, C J ^b   Jiang, H ^a   McAnelly, R L ^a   Harrington, J Y ^c   Nicholls, M E ^a   Carrio, G G ^a   McFadden, J P ^a  

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^b MISSION RESEARCH CORPORATION   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRFLOW; ALGORITHM; CIRCULATION MODELING; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY;

EID: 0038283849     PISSN: 01777971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00703-001-0584-9     Document Type: Article

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