Monitoring precipitation over the Arctic terrestrial drainage system: Data requirements, shortcomings, and applications of atmospheric reanalysis

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 387-407

  Serreze, Mark C ^a   Clark, Martyn P ^a   Bromwich, David H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING METHOD; MONITORING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINGAUGE;

ARCTIC;

EID: 0037593852     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1525-7541(2003)4<387:MPOTAT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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