Adaptive observations: A feasibility study

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 743-765

  Bergot, Thierry ^a   Hello, Gwenaëlle ^b   Joly, Alain ^a   Malardel, Sylvie ^b  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^b MÉTÉO FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOGENESIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FORECASTING METHOD; NUMERICAL METHOD;

(NORTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032693541     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1999)127<0743:AOAFS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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