The NCEP Regional Spectral Model: An Update

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 78, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 2125-2143

  Juang, Hann Ming Henry ^a   Hong, Song You ^a   Kanamitsu, Masao ^a  

^a CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODEL; GLOBAL SPECTRAL MODEL; REGIONAL SPECTRAL MODEL;

EID: 0031411708     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1997)078<2125:TNRSMA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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