Ensemble forecasting at NCEP and the breeding method

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 125, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 3297-3319

  Toth, Zoltan ^a,b   Kalnay, Eugenia ^a  

^a CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^b GENERAL SCIENCES CORPORATION   (United States)

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EID: 0000593274     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1997)125<3297:EFANAT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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