Tracer advection using dynamic grid adaptation and MM5

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 133, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 175-187

  Iselin, John P ^a,b,c   Gutowski, William J ^b,d   Prusa, Joseph M ^a,e  

^a Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

^b Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PLATTEVILLE   (United States)

^d IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Teraflux Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEURISTIC METHODS; METEOROLOGY;

ADVECTIVE SOLVER; DYNAMIC GRID ADAPTATIONS (DGA); NUMERICAL ERRORS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; TRACER; WIND FIELD;

EID: 14344253843     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-2850.1     Document Type: Article

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