Initial Selection of a GCOS Surface Network

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 78, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 2145-2152

  Peterson, Thomas ^a   Daan, Harald ^b   Jones, Philip ^c  

^a NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

^b Koninklijk Nederlands M   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GCOS; LAND SURFACE; WEATHER STATION;

EID: 0031411201     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1997)078<2145:ISOAGS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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