Surface energy balance of the NCEP MRF and NCEP-NCAR reanalysis in Antarctic latitudes during FROST

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 14, Issue 6 PART 1, 1999, Pages 851-866

  Hines, Keith M ^a   Grumbine, Robert W ^b   Bromwich, David H ^a   Cullather, Richard I ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY BALANCE; NUMERICAL METHOD; SURFACE ENERGY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ANTARCTICA;

CLIMATOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING; HEAT FLUX; TROPOSPHERE;

SURFACE ENERGY BALANCE;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0033237231     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1999)014<0851:sebotn>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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