The operational CMC-MRB global environmental multiscale (GEM) model. Part II: Results

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 126, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1397-1418

  Côté, Jean ^a   Desmarais, Jean Guy ^a   Gravel, Sylvie ^a   Méthot, André ^a   Patoine, Alain ^a   Roch, Michel ^a   Staniforth, Andrew ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING METHOD; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0032412983     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1998)126<1397:TOCMGE>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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