Verification of GRAPES unified global and regional numerical weather prediction model dynamic core

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 53, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 3458-3464

  Yang, Xuesheng ^a   Hu, Jianglin ^a   Chen, Dehui ^b   Zhang, Hongliang ^a   Shen, Xueshun ^a   Chen, Jiabin ^c   Ji, Liren ^c  

^a STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

^b NATIONAL SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Dynamic core; Idealized test; Multi scale; Nonhydrostatic; Semi implicit semi Lagrangian

Indexed keywords

EID: 56349129236     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-008-0417-z     Document Type: Article

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