Application of a multigrid method to a mass-consistent diagnostic wind model

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1078-1089

  Wang, Yansen ^a   Williamson, Chatt ^a   Garvey, Dennis ^a   Chang, Sam ^a   Cogan, James ^a  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; POISSON EQUATION; VECTORS;

DIAGNOSTIC WIND MODEL; HEMISPHERE; MULTIGRID NUMERICAL METHODS;

WIND EFFECTS;

NUMERICAL METHOD; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 24644468255     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAM2262.1     Document Type: Article

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