Development and tests of a new distributed-memory MM5 adjoint

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 424-436

  Ruggiero, Frank H ^a   Michalakes, John ^b   Nehrkorn, Thomas ^c   Modica, George D ^c   Zou, Xiaolei ^d  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^d FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

SINGLE-PROCESSOR COMPUTER ARCHITECTURES; TANGENT LINEAR MODEL;

METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MODEL;

EID: 33646200485     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH1862.1     Document Type: Article

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