From model-based parameterizations to lookup tables: An EOF approach

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1127-1145

  Leoncini, Giovanni ^a,c   Pielke Sr , Roger A ^b   Gabriel, Philip ^a  

^a Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and School of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; INPUT OUTPUTS; INPUT VARIABLES; LONG WAVES; LOOK-UP TABLES; MODEL-BASED; PARAMETERIZATIONS; RADIATION PARAMETERIZATION; TRANSFER SCHEMES; WATER VAPOR MIXING RATIOS;

FOURIER ANALYSIS; NANOFLUIDICS; TABLE LOOKUP; WATER VAPOR;

PARAMETERIZATION;

ALGORITHM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 65549135015     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008WAF2007033.1     Document Type: Article

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