Applying horizontal diffusion on pressure surface to mesoscale models on terrain-following coordinates

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 133, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1384-1402

  Juang, Hann Ming Henry ^a,b   Lee, Ching Teng ^c   Zhang, Yongxin ^d   Song, Yucheng ^e   Wu, Ming Chin ^c   Chen, Yi Leng ^d   Kodama, Kevin ^f   Chen, Shyh Chin ^g  

^a NOAA/NWS/NCEP   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^e CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^f National Weather Service   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; RAIN; WEATHER FORECASTING;

FLOW PATTERN SIMULATIONS; MESOSCALE SPECTRAL MODELS (MSM); REGIONAL SPECTRAL MODELS (RSM); VERTICAL MIXING;

METEOROLOGY;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 20444473814     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR2925.1     Document Type: Article

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