A coupled mesoscale-model Fourier-method for idealized mountain-wave simulations over Hawaii

Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 108, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 71-81

  Lindeman, John ^a   Broutman, Dave ^b   Eckermann, Stephen D ^c   Ma, Jun ^b   Boybeyi, Zafer ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Computational Physics Inc ^*  (United States)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; DRAG; FOURIER TRANSFORM; LEE WAVE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MOMENTUM; SIMULATION; TRADE WIND; VORTEX; WAVE GENERATION;

HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77958472313     PISSN: 01777971     EISSN: 14365065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00703-010-0085-9     Document Type: Article

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