Four-dimensional variational analyses of FASTEX situations using special observations

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 125, Issue 561, 1999, Pages 3339-3358

  Desroziers, Gerald ^a   Pouponneau, Béatrice ^b   Thépaut, Jean Noel ^b   Janisková, Marta ^b   Veersé, Fabrice ^b  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Data assimilation; FASTEX; Field experiment; Mesoscale observations

Indexed keywords

CYCLONE; DATA ASSIMILATION; FASTEX; FIELDWORK; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033504467     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.49712556111     Document Type: Article

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