Impact on Hurricane Track and Intensity Forecasts of GPS Dropwindsonde Observations from the First-Season Flights of the NOAA Gulfstream-IV Jet Aircraft

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 421-427

  Aberson, Sim D ^a   Franklin, James L ^a  

^a NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 0000372250     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1999)080<0421:IOHTAI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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