Mesoscale predictability of moist baroclinic waves: Variable and scale-dependent error growth

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 995-1008

  Bei, Naifang ^a   Zhang, Fuqing ^b  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

baroclinic waves; error growth; mesoscale; predictability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904346395     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-014-3191-7     Document Type: Article

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