Study of the lateral boundary condition temporal resolution problem and a proposed solution by means of boundary error restarts

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3551-3566

  Termonia, Piet ^a   Deckmyn, Alex ^a   Hamdi, Rafiq ^a  

^a ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF BELGIUM   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ERRORS; COMMON SENSE; COUPLING FIELDS; LATERAL BOUNDARY; LATERAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; LIMITED AREA MODELS; MESOSCALE; OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS; OPERATIONAL PRACTICES; SEVERE STORMS; TECHNICAL CONSTRAINTS; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; TIME STEP; TIME-SCALES;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DIGITAL FILTERS; ERRORS; STORMS;

FORECASTING;

ALGORITHM; BOUNDARY CONDITION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEVERE WEATHER; STORM; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 70449091537     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR2964.1     Document Type: Article

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