Real-time mesoscale modeling over Antarctica: The Antarctic mesoscale prediction system

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 84, Issue 11, 2003, Pages

  Powers, Jordan G ^a   Monaghan, Andrew J ^b   Cayette, Arthur M ^c   Bromwich, David H ^b   Kuo, Ying Hwa ^a   Manning, Kevin W ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARINE RESCUE; MESOSCALE PREDICTION SYSTEMS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADIOSONDES; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

METEOROLOGY;

EID: 0346685926     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-84-11-1533     Document Type: Article

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