Mesoscale analysis and impact on simulation of IOP14 of the MAP experiment

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 131, Issue 611, 2005, Pages 2769-2793

  Nuret, Mathieu ^a   Lafore, J P ^a   Gouget, V ^a   Ducrocq, V ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

Injection of data; METEOSAT; QPF

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

MESOSCALE ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION FORECAST; SURFACE PRECIPITATION;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

INTERPOLATION; METEOSAT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 28144452225     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.04.110     Document Type: Article

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