Development and testing of a high resolution mountain-wave forecasting system

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 75-86

  Vosper, Simon ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BALLOONS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LANDFORMS; RADIOSONDES; VELOCITY;

BOUSSINESQ EQUATIONS; DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING; FINITE DIFFERENCE APPROXIMATIONS; GLOBAL FORECAST MODELS; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; RADIOSONDE OBSERVATIONS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL MODELING; VERTICAL VELOCITY;

FORECASTING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BOUSSINESQ EQUATION; FIELD METHOD; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FORECASTING METHOD; MODEL VALIDATION; MOUNTAIN REGION; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIOSONDE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TESTING METHOD; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WAVE FIELD; WIND PROFILE;

EID: 4143095115     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: 14698080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1350482703005085     Document Type: Article

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