A comparison between the ERA40 and the SMHI gridded meteorological databases as applied to Baltic Sea modelling

Nordic Hydrology

Volumn 36, Issue 4-5, 2005, Pages 369-380

  Omstedt, Anders ^a   Chen, Y ^a   Wesslander, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; Evaporation; Meteorological data; Modelling; Precipitation; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DATABASE SYSTEMS; EVAPORATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SEA ICE; WIND;

METEOROLOGICAL DATA; TOTAL CLOUD COVER; WIND SPEED;

METEOROLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; EVAPORATION; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA ICE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

EID: 28944447754     PISSN: 00291277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/nh.2005.0028     Document Type: Article

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