Multifunctional mesoscale observing networks

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 86, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 961-982

  Dabberdt, Walter F ^a   Schlatter, Thomas W ^b   Carr, Frederick H ^c   Friday, Elbert W Joe ^c   Jorgensen, David ^d   Koch, Steven ^b   Pirone, Maria ^e   Ralph, F Martin ^b   Sun, Juanzhen ^f   Welsh, Patrick ^g   Wilson, James W ^f   Zou, Xiaolei ^h  

^a Vaisala Inc USA   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^d NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^e ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^f NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^g NOAA National Weather Service Jacksonville   (United States)

^h FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER RADAR; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; MONITORING; SURVEILLANCE RADAR; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

ATMOSPHERIC FORECASTING; ENHANCED FORECAST MODEL RESOLUTION; INFORMATION DELIVERY SYSTEM; INTEGRATED FORECASTING SYSTEMS; MULTIFUNCTIONAL MESOSCALE OBSERVING NETWORKS; TEST BEDS; WEATHER SURVEILLANCE RADAR;

METEOROLOGY;

EID: 23144463583     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-86-7-961     Document Type: Article

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