Changes to the 1995 NCEP operational medium-range forecast model analysis-forecast system

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 12, Issue 3 PART II, 1997, Pages 581-594

  Caplan, Peter ^a,b   Derber, John ^a   Gemmill, William ^a   Hong, Song You ^a   Pan, Hua Lu ^a   Parrish, David ^a  

^a Environmental Modeling Center   (United States)

^b NCEP/EMC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); REMOTE SENSING; TROPOSPHERE; WIND;

FORECAST MODEL; GLOBAL ANALYSIS FORECAST SYSTEM;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ERS-1; GLOBAL ANALYSIS-FORECAST SYSTEM; NCEP; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0031225186     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1997)012<0581:cttnom>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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