Sensitivities of an intense Mediterranean cyclone: Analysis and validation

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 130, Issue 602 PART A, 2004, Pages 2519-2540

  Homar, Victor ^a   Stensrud, David J ^a  

^a NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjoint model

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; WIND;

MEDITERRANEAN CYCLONES;

STORMS;

CYCLONE; MODEL VALIDATION; PARAMETERIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 8344240458     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.03.85     Document Type: Article

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