TOGA COARE upper-air sounding data archive: Development and quality control procedures

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 77, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 2651-2671

  Loehrer, Scot M ^a   Edmands, Todd A ^a,b   Moore, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; ATMOSPHERE/OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERE/OCEAN SYSTEM; DATABASE; DATABASES; TOGA COARE; TOGA-COARE; UPPER-AIR SOUNDING;

PACIFIC, (EQUATORIAL WEST);

EID: 0030427911     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1996)077<2651:TCUASD>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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