Confronting models with data: The GEWEX cloud systems study

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 455-469+429

  Randall, David ^a   Krueger, Steven ^b   Bretherton, Christopher ^c   Curry, Judith ^d   Duynkerke, Peter ^e   Moncrieff, Mitchell ^f   Ryan, Brian ^g   Starr, David ^h   Miller, Martin ⁱ   Rossow, William ^j   Tselioudis, George ^j   Wielicki, Bruce ^k  

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d UCB 450   (United States)

^e ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^f NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^g CSIRO   (Australia)

^h NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^j NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^k NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SATELLITES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CLOUD-SYSTEM-RESOLVING MODELS (CSRM);

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0037692715     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-84-4-455     Document Type: Article

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