A vertically flow-following icosahedral grid model for medium-range and seasonal prediction. Part I: Model description

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 143, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 2386-2403

  Bleck, Rainer ^a,b   Bao, Jian Wen ^a   Benjamin, Stanley G ^a   Brown, John M ^a   Fiorino, Michael ^a   Henderson, Thomas B ^a   Lee, Jin Luen ^a   MacDonald, Alexander E ^a   Madden, Paul ^a   Middlecoff, Jacques ^a   Rosinski, James ^a   Smirnova, Tanya G ^a   Sun, Shan ^a   Wang, Ning ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Grid systems; Numerical weather prediction forecasting; Potential vorticity; Rossby waves; Vertical coordinates; Wave breaking

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; FORECASTING; MECHANICAL WAVES;

GRID SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION/FORECASTING; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; ROSSBY WAVE; VERTICAL COORDINATES; WAVEBREAKING;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

COORDINATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; ROSSBY WAVE; WAVE BREAKING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84943419352     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-14-00300.1     Document Type: Article

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