Semi-Lagrangian moisture transport in the NMC spectral model

David L. Williamson

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v42i4.11887

Semi-Lagrangian moisture transport in the NMC spectral model

Tellus

Volume 42 (1990): Issue 4

By: David L. Williamson

Open Access

|Jan 1990

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