Computing divergence from a surface network: Comparison of the triangle and pentagon methods

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 596-608

  Dubois, Jacqueline A ^a   Spencer, Phillip L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; STORMS; WIND EFFECTS;

BARNES ANALYSIS; COMPUTING DIVERGENCE; ERROR ESTIMATION; PENTAGON METHOD; SURFACE NETWORK; TRINGULAR TESSELLATION;

METEOROLOGY;

ANTICYCLONE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIVERGENCE; NUMERICAL METHOD;

EID: 27544506990     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF867.1     Document Type: Article

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