Monthly forecasting at ECMWF

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 132, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2761-2779

  Vitart, Frédéric ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY; SEA LEVEL;

GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS; MONTHLY FORECASTING SYSTEMS; PROBABILISTIC SCORES; SEASONAL VARIABILITY;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE MODELING; FORECASTING METHOD; SEASONAL VARIATION;

EID: 11844252098     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR2826.1     Document Type: Article

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