The impact of initial condition uncertainty on numerical simulations of blocking

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 126, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 2482-2502

  Nutter, Paul A ^a,c,d   Mullen, Steven L ^a   Baumhefner, David P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c KENNEDY SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^d ENSCO INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE FORCING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL;

EID: 0032466632     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1998)126<2482:TIOICU>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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