A High Resolution, Three-Dimensional, Computationally Efficient, Diagnostic Wind Model: Initial Development Report

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Wind Profiles in Gentle Terrains and Vegetative Canopies for a Three-Dimensional Wind Field (3DWF) Model

“…The 3-dimensional wind field (3DWF) is a simple, near real-time model and data assimilation system (1,2). An initial wind field is required for a simulation in the 3DWF model and is adjusted with the mass conservation principle using a variational method to produce a massconsistent diagnostic wind field.…”