Evaluation of temperature and wind over Antarctica in a Regional Atmospheric Climate Model using 1 year of automatic weather station data and upper air observations

Journal of Geophysical Research D: Atmospheres

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1-12

  Reijmer, C H ^a   van Meijgaard, E ^b   van den Broeke, M R ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALBEDO; CLIMATE MODELING; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WEATHER STATION; WIND VELOCITY;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; WORLD;

EID: 17944379402     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004JD005234     Document Type: Article

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