Use and impact of automated aircraft data in a global 4DVAR data assimilation system

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 131, Issue 8 PART 2, 2003, Pages 1865-1877

  Cardinali, Carla ^a   Isaksen, Lars ^a   Andersson, Erik ^a  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; DATA ACQUISITION; METEOROLOGY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIRBORNE SENSING; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION;

EID: 0141459935     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175//2569.1     Document Type: Article

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