On the effects of the temporal and spatial sampling of radiation fields on the ECMWF forecasts and analyses

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 876-887

  Morcrette, Jean Jacques ^a  

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

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

FORECASTING METHOD; LONG RANGE FORECAST; RADIATIVE FORCING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0034013072     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2000)128<0876:OTEOTT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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