Evaluating NCEP Eta Model-derived data against observations

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 126, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1977-1991

  Yucel, Ismail ^a   Shuttleworth, W James ^a   Washburne, James ^a   Chen, Fei ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b Environmental Modeling Center   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032439090     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1998)126<1977:ENEMDD>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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