A method for improved analyses of scalars and their derivatives

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 131, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2555-2576

  Spencer, Phillip L ^a,b   Stensrud, David J ^b   Fritsch, J Michael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS;

TRIANGLE METHODS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; DATA INTERPRETATION; LAPLACE TRANSFORM; TRIANGULATION; VECTOR;

EID: 0347382722     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2003)131<2555:AMFIAO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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