Articles | Volume 8, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-3975-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-3975-2015
Model description paper
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14 Dec 2015
Model description paper |  | 14 Dec 2015

NCAR_Topo (v1.0): NCAR global model topography generation software for unstructured grids

P. H. Lauritzen, J. T. Bacmeister, P. F. Callaghan, and M. A. Taylor

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This paper documents the NCAR global model topography generation software. The software generates elevation and related data for global atmospheric models based in GTOPO30 or GMTED2010/MODIS source data.