A generalization of the SLEVE vertical coordinate

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 3683-3689

  Leuenberger, Daniel ^a   Koller, Marcel ^b,c   Fuhrer, Oliver ^a   Schär, Christoph ^b  

^a FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

^b ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^c Engineering Development   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; COMPLEX TOPOGRAPHIES; COMPUTATIONAL MESH; FAST TRANSITION; NUMERICAL ERRORS; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; REAL-CASE SIMULATIONS; SIGMA-COORDINATES; VERTICAL COORDINATES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LANDFORMS;

UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BOUNDARY LAYER; COMPLEX TERRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COORDINATE; ERROR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; TERRAIN; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 77958515364     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3307.1     Document Type: Article

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