Mesoscale background error covariances: Recent results obtained with the limited-area model ALADIN over Morocco

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 128, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 3927-3935

  Sadiki, Wafaa ^a   Fischer, Claude ^b   Geleyn, Jean François ^b  

^a National Meteorological Research Centre   (Morocco)

^b CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; ERROR ANALYSIS; FORECASTING METHOD; WEATHER FORECASTING;

MOROCCO;

EID: 0034535690     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2001)129<3927:MBECRR>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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