The use of structure functions and spectra from numerical model output to determine effective model resolution

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1537-1553

  Frehlich, Rod G ^a,b   Sharman, Robert ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATOLOGY; FILTRATION; FUNCTIONS; METEOROLOGY; NUMBER THEORY; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; RESEARCH AIRCRAFT; STATISTICAL METHODS; STATISTICS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

(2+1) DIMENSIONS; AIRCRAFT DATA; AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY (AMS); LATITUDE (CO); LOWER STRATOSPHERE; MODEL RESOLUTION; MOUNTAIN WAVES; MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS; NET EFFECT; NUMERICAL MODELLING; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION (NWP) MODELS; SMOOTHING EFFECTS; SPATIAL FILTERING; SPATIAL SPECTRUM; SPATIAL STATISTICS; SPATIAL STRUCTURING; SPECTRA (CO); STRUCTURE FUNCTIONS; UPPER TROPOSPHERE (UT); VELOCITY STATISTICS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 45749137315     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007MWR2250.1     Document Type: Article

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