The utility of upper-boundary nesting in NWP

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 139, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2117-2144

  Mctaggart Cowan, Ron ^a   Girard, Claude ^a   Plante, André ^a   Desgagné, Michel ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boundary conditions; Mesosphere; Numerical weather prediction forecasting; Stratosphere

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; GLOBAL FORECASTS; GLOBAL MODELS; HIGH-SPEED; LATERAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; LIMITED AREA MODELS; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; MESOSPHERE; MODEL DOMAINS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; STRATOSPHERIC VORTEX; TIME-SCALES; WAVE BREAK;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERICS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BOUNDARY CONDITION; MESOSPHERE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANETARY WAVE; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EUROPE;

EID: 79960702986     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3633.1     Document Type: Article

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