Monitoring the performance of the ECMWF operational analysis using the enhanced TOGA COARE observational network

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 53-65

  Nuret, Mathieu ^a   Chong, Michel ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; COARE; MONITORING SYSTEMS; WARM POOL;

PACIFIC, (EQUATORIAL WESTERN);

ATMOSPHERE; MONITORING; OCEANS;

EID: 0029656829     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1996)011<0053:MTPOTE>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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