A balanced ageostrophic initialization with a fixed external wind boundary value for limited-area models

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 325-342

  Chen, Qiu Shi ^a   Kuo, Yin Hwa ^b   Bromwich, David H ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OSU ^*

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EID: 0042597477     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj1965.74.3_325     Document Type: Article

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