Evaluation of a multigrid barotropic tropical cyclone track model

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 131, Issue 8 PART 1, 2003, Pages 1629-1636

  Vigh, Jonathan ^a   Fulton, Scott R ^b   DeMaria, Mark ^c   Schubert, Wayne H ^a  

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

^b CLARKSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STORMS;

BAROTROPIC MODELS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

HURRICANE; MODELING; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

EID: 0141459908     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175//2551.1     Document Type: Article

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