The operational CMC-MRB global environmental multiscale (GEM) model. Part I: Design considerations and formulation

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 126, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1373-1395

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

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

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FORECASTING METHOD; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0032443494     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1998)126<1373:TOCMGE>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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