Comparison of Tropospheric Temperatures Derived from the NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis, NCEP Operational Analysis, and the Microwave Sounding Unit

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 78, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1431-1447

  Basist, Alan N ^a,c   Chelliah, Muthuvel ^b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 0000966155     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1997)078<1431:COTTDF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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