Limited area NWP and regional climate modeling: A test of the relaxation vs Eta lateral boundary conditions

Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 119, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 1-16

  Mesinger, Fedor ^a,b   Veljovic, Katarina ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b SERBIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS   (Serbia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLIMATE MODELING; FORECASTING METHOD; GRAVITY WAVE; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84871936503     PISSN: 01777971     EISSN: 14365065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00703-012-0217-5     Document Type: Article

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