An intercomparison of results from three trajectory models

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 127-135

  Stohl, A ^a   Haimberger, L ^b   Scheele, M P ^c   Wernli, H ^d  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BELT CONVEYORS; INTERPOLATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; INTERPOLATION METHOD; INTERPOLATION SCHEMES; LINEAR INTERPOLATION; SPATIAL INTERPOLATION; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL TRAJECTORIES; WARM CONVEYOR BELTS;

TRAJECTORIES;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; INTERPOLATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TRAJECTORY; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND FIELD;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EUROPE;

EID: 0242316727     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1350482701002018     Document Type: Article

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