Validation of hydrometeor occurrence predicted by the ECMWF Model using millimeter wave radar data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1645-1648

  Mace, Gerald G ^a   Jakob, Christian ^b   Moran, Kenneth P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; FORECASTING; MILLIMETER WAVES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADAR; DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; FORECAST MODEL; GLOBAL MODELS; MILLIMETER WAVE RADAR; OKLAHOMA; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

CLIMATE MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS (GCM); MILLIMETER WAVE RADARS;

FORECAST MODEL; HYDROMETER PREDICTION; RADAR;

EID: 0032523642     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL00845     Document Type: Article

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