On the computation of the mountain torque from gridded global datasets

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 4005-4009

  Huang, Huei Ping ^a   Weickmann, Klaus M ^b  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; LANDFORMS; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TORQUE;

APPLICATIONS.; AXIAL COMPONENTS; BENCHMARK CALCULATIONS; DATA SETS; DIFFERENCE SCHEMES; GLOBAL DATASETS; GLOBAL SURFACES; MOUNTAIN TORQUES; NUMERICAL SCHEMES; RE ANALYSES; SPECTRAL METHODS; SURFACE PRESSURES;

SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BENCHMARKING; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MOUNTAIN; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE PRESSURE; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; TORQUE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 57149139440     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2359.1     Document Type: Article

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