Improvements to the representation of orography in the Met Office Unified Model

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 129, Issue 591 PART B, 2003, Pages 1989-2010

  Webster, S ^a   Brown, A R ^a   Cameron, D R ^a   Jones, C P ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flow blocking; Gravity wave drag; Parametrization; Smoothing

Indexed keywords

DRAG; FRICTION; GRAVITY WAVES; PRESSURE EFFECTS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

OROGRAPHY;

METEOROLOGY;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; GRAVITY WAVE; OROGRAPHY; PARAMETERIZATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0038346378     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.02.133     Document Type: Article

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