Automated meteorological reports from commercial aircraft

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Moninger, William R ^a   Mamrosh, Richard D ^a   Pauley, Patricia M ^b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; DATA PROCESSING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION (NWP) MODELS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0037293473     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/bams-84-2-203     Document Type: Review

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