Predictive skill of an NWP system in the southern lower stratosphere

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 124, Issue 551, 1998, Pages 2181-2200

  Waugh, D W ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Elliptical diagnostics; Forecast skill; Polar vortices; Stratosphere

Indexed keywords

ERROR CORRECTION; FORECASTING METHOD; POLAR VORTEX; PREDICTION; STRATOSPHERE;

EID: 0032467710     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/smsqj.55101     Document Type: Article

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