Use of SSM/I ice concentration data in the ECMWF SST analysis

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 287-296

  Fernandez, P ^a,b   Kelly, G ^a   Saunders, R ^a  

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

^b National Institute of Meteorology   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ICE CONTROL; MICROWAVE DEVICES; QUALITY CONTROL; SEA ICE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ECMWF RE-ANALYSIS; ICE CONCENTRATION; MULTI-CHANNEL MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; SEA ICE CONCENTRATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATOLOGY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ISOTHERM; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGRAPHY; QUALITY CONTROL; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 1542526975     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1350482798000942     Document Type: Article

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