An ocean observing system for climate

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 77, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 2243-2273

  Nowlin Jr , Worth D ^a   Smith, Neville ^b   Needler, George ^c   Taylor, Peter K ^d   Weller, Robert ^e   Schmitt, Ray ^e   Merlivat, Liliane ^f   Vézina, Alain ^g   Alexiou, Arthur ^h   McPhaden, Michael ⁱ   Wakatsuchi, Massaaki ^j  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^c BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

^d NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^e WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^f SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^g MAURICE LAMONTAGNE INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^h UNESCO   (France)

ⁱ NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^j HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC INSTRUMENT; CLIMATE; CLIMATE OBSERVATION; GCOS; GLOBAL OCEAN OBSERVING SYSTEM; GOOS; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0030441210     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1996)077<2243:AOOSFC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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