A variational method for orographic filtering in NWP and climate models

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 132, Issue 619, 2006, Pages 1795-1813

  Rutt, I C ^a   Thuburn, J ^b   Staniforth, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Numerical weather prediction; Orography; Smoothing

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LANDFORMS; NONLINEAR FILTERING; STORMS;

NONLINEAR SHALLOW-WATER MODEL; OROGRAPHIC FILTERING; VARIATIONAL FILTERING METHOD;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; SMOOTHING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 33750142340     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.05.133     Document Type: Article

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