Evaluating the suitability of the SWAN/COSMO-2 model system to simulate short-crested surface waves for a narrow lake with complex bathymetry

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 257-272

  Graf, Michael ^a   Sprenger, Michael ^a   Lohmann, Ulrike ^a   Seibt, Christian ^b   Hofmann, Hilmar ^b  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Complex topography; Surface wave forecast; Wind fluctuations

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX TOPOGRAPHIES; EXTERNAL FORCING; INHERENT VARIABILITY; MODEL SIMULATION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; SPECTRAL WAVE MODELS; WAVE FORECAST; WIND FLUCTUATION;

EXPERIMENTS; LAKES; SURFACE WAVES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

BATHYMETRY; FORECASTING METHOD; LAKE WATER; NUMERICAL MODEL; SURFACE WAVE; TOPOGRAPHY; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND FIELD; WIND VELOCITY; WIND WAVE;

SWITZERLAND; ZURICHSEE;

EID: 84887841962     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2013/0442     Document Type: Article

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