Unidata: A Virtual Community Sharing Resources via Technological Infrastructure

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 457-468

  Fulker, David ^a,c   Bates, Sally ^a   Jacobs, Clifford ^b  

^a Unidata Program Center   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DATA; UNIDATA PROGRAM;

EID: 0031285299     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1997)078<0457:UAVCSR>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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