Impact of assimilations of dropwindsonde data and SSM/I rain rates on numerical predictions of Hurricane Florence (1988)

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 124, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1435-1448

  Shi, Jainn Jong ^a,b   Chang, Simon ^b   Raman, Sethu ^c  

^a SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0007207065     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1996)124<1435:IOAODD>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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