Windspharm: A High-Level Library for Global Wind Field Computations Using Spherical Harmonics

Andrew Dawson

doi:10.5334/jors.129

Windspharm: A High-Level Library for Global Wind Field Computations Using Spherical Harmonics

Journal of Open Research Software

Volume 4 (2016): Issue 1

By: Andrew Dawson

Open Access

|Aug 2016

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