The deep-atmosphere Euler equations in a generalized vertical coordinate

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 131, Issue 8 PART 2, 2003, Pages 1931-1938

  Staniforth, Andrew ^a   Wood, Nigel ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY CONSERVATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

DEEP-ATMOSPHERE MODELS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; EULERIAN ANALYSIS;

EID: 0141682986     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175//2564.1     Document Type: Article

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