Evaluation of the NCEP-NCAR and ECMWF 15- and 40-Yr reanalyses using rawinsonde data from two independent Arctic field experiments

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 133, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 3562-3578

  Bromwich, David H ^a   Wang, Sheng Hung ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DATA REDUCTION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADIOSONDES; TROPOSPHERE; WIND;

ARCTIC OCEAN; COORDINATED EASTERN ARCTIC RESEARCH EXPERIMENT; RAWINSONDE; WIND SPEED;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; RADIOSONDE; REMOTE SENSING; WIND VELOCITY;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 31344431758     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3043.1     Document Type: Article

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