Real-time operational forecasting on shipboard of the Iceland-Faeroe frontal variability

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 243-259

  Robinson, A R ^a   Arango, H G ^a   Miller, A J ^b   Warn Varnas, A ^c,d   Poulain, P M ^c   Leslie, W G ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATO UNDERSEA RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^d NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLD MEANDER DEVELOPMENT; EQUATION MODELLING; FORECAST EVALUATION; FRONTAL VARIABILITY; ICELAND-FAEROE FRONT; OCEANIC FRONTS; REAL-TIME FORECASTING; SHIPBOARD; SHIPBOARD FORECAST;

ATLANTIC, (NORTH); ATLANTIC, ICELAND-FAEROE FRONT;

EID: 0029728802     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1996)077<0243:RTOFOS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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