Monitoring and improving the temporal interpolation of lateral-boundary coupling data for limited-area models

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 131, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2450-2463

  Termonia, Piet ^a  

^a ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF BELGIUM   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; METEOROLOGY;

LIMITED-AREA MODELS (LAM);

WEATHER FORECASTING;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; ERROR CORRECTION; INTERPOLATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0242498597     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2003)131<2450:MAITTI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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