Verification of high-resolution RAMS forecasts over East-Central Florida during the 1999 and 2000 summer months

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1133-1151

  Case, Jonathan L ^a   Manobianco, John ^a   Dianic, Allan V ^a   Wheeler, Mark M ^a   Harms, Dewey E ^b   Parks, Carlton R ^b  

^a NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^b USAF   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEAN CURRENTS; RIVERS; SPACE RESEARCH; STATISTICAL METHODS; WIND;

REGIONAL ATMOSPHERIC MODELLING SYSTEM (RAMS);

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ERROR ANALYSIS; SEA BREEZE; SUMMER; WEATHER FORECASTING;

FLORIDA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036926856     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(2002)017<1133:VOHRRF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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