Characteristics of the kinetic energy spectrum of NICAM model atmosphere

Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 180-183

  Terasaki, Koji ^a   Tanaka, H L ^a   Satoh, Masaki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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EID: 78649256122     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13496476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/sola.2009-046     Document Type: Article

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