A meteorological reanalysis for the 1991 Gulf War

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 623-640

  Shi, Jainn J ^a   Chang, Simon W ^b   Holt, Teddy R ^c   Hogan, Timothy F ^c   Westphal, Douglas L ^c  

^a SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; LAKES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STATISTICAL METHODS; VENTILATION;

MESOSCALE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ATMOSPHERIC CHARACTERIZATION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CHEMICAL WEAPON; METEOROLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; PREDICTION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ARABIAN SEA; INDIAN OCEAN; PERSIAN GULF;

EID: 1542540376     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2004)132<0623:AMRFTG>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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