Spatial kinetic energy spectra in the convection-permitting limited-area NWP model COSMO-DE

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 245-258

  Bierdel, Lotte ^a   Friederichs, Petra ^a   Bentzien, Sabrina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT; EFFECTIVE RESOLUTIONS; ENSEMBLE PREDICTION SYSTEMS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HORIZONTAL GRID SPACING; HORIZONTAL WINDS; KINETIC ENERGY SPECTRA; LIMITED AREA MODELS; MACRO SCALE; MERIDIONAL WINDS; MESOSCALE; METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATION; MODEL SIMULATION; MODEL SPECTRA; NWP MODEL; RAIN RADAR; SIMILAR MODELS; SPATIAL KINETICS; SPECTRAL ENERGY; SPIN-UP; TEMPORAL VARIANCE; VERTICAL VELOCITY; WAVE NUMBERS; WAVENUMBER SPECTRA;

KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; VELOCITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

AIRBORNE SURVEY; CLIMATE MODELING; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; KINETIC ENERGY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; PREDICTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND VELOCITY; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 84868331666     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2012/0319     Document Type: Conference Paper

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