The ERA-40 re-analysis

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 131, Issue 612, 2005, Pages 2961-3012

  Uppala, S M ^a   Kallberg P W ^a   Simmons, Adrian J ^a   Andrae, U ^a   da Costa Bechtold, V ^a   Fiorino, M ^b   Gibson, J K ^a   Haseler, J ^a   Hernandez, A ^a   Kelly, G A ^a   Li, X ^c   Onogi, K ^d   Saarinen, S ^a   Sokka, N ^a   Allan, R P ^e,j   Andersson, E ^a   Arpe, K ^f   Balmaseda, M A ^a   Beljaars, A C M ^a   van de Berg, L ^g   Bidlot, J ^a   Bormann, N ^a   Caires, S ^h   Chevallier, F ^a   Dethof, A ^a   Dragosavac, M ^a   Fisher, M ^a   Fuentes, M ^a   Hagemann, S ^f   Holm E ^a   Hoskins, B J ^e   Isaksen, L ^a   Janssen, P A E M ^a   Jenne, R ⁱ   McNally, A P ^a   Mahfouf, J F ^a   Morcrette, J J ^a   Rayner, N A ^j   Saunders, R W ^j   Simon, P ^k   Sterl, A ^h   Trenberth, K E ⁱ   Untch, A ^a   Vasiljevic, D ^a   Viterbo, P ^a   Woollen, J ^l   more..

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

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^g EUMETSAT   (Germany)

^h ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

ⁱ NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^j MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^k MÉTÉO FRANCE   (France)

^l NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Data assimilation; Numerical weather prediction; Observing system

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA REDUCTION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADIOSONDES; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND;

DATA ASSIMILATION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; OBSERVING SYSTEM;

METEOROLOGY;

DATA ASSIMILATION; RADIOSONDE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 27144554835     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.04.176     Document Type: Review

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