A spatial two-dimensional discrete filter for limited-area-model evaluation purposes

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 133, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1774-1786

  Feser, Frauke ^a   von Storch, Hans ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BANDPASS FILTERS; HIGH PASS FILTERS; LOW PASS FILTERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

DISCRETE SPATIAL FILTER; LIMITED AREA MODELS;

METEOROLOGY;

DATA PROCESSING; METEOROLOGY; SPATIAL DATA;

EID: 24944443889     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR2939.1     Document Type: Article

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