Cloud cover in the ECMWF reanalysis

Journal of Climate

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 947-959

  Jakob, Christian ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER SATELLITES;

CLOUD COVER; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION;

CLOUDS;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD COVER;

EID: 0033117442     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1999)012<0947:CCITER>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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