Assessing the effects of data selection with the DAO physical-space statistical analysis system

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 126, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2913-2926

  Cohn, Stephen E ^a   Da Silva, Arlindo ^a   Guo, Jing ^a,b   Sienkiewicz, Meta ^a,b   Lamich, David ^a,b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b GENERAL SCIENCES CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METEOROLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032999493     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1998)126<2913:ATEODS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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