Forecasts of valley circulations using the terrain-following and step-mountain vertical coordinates in the Meso-Eta Model

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1192-1206

  Fast, Jerome D ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; WIND;

CANYON FLOWS; GRID SPACING;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; VALLEY; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 1642520962     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(2003)018<1192:FOVCUT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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