An assessment of the NCEP operational global spectral model forecasts and analyses for Antarctic during FROST

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 14, Issue 6 PART 1, 1999, Pages 835-850

  Bromwich, David H ^a,c   Cullather, Richard I ^a,d   Grumbine, Robert W ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UCB 428   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL METHOD; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ANTARCTICA;

CLIMATOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TROPOSPHERE;

OPERATIONAL GLOBAL SPECTRAL MODEL;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0033237226     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1999)014<0835:aaotno>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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