Performance of the surface observation network during MAP

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 109-121

  Häberli, Christian ^a,b   Groehn, Inga ^a   Steinacker, Reinhold ^a   Pöttschacher, Wolfgang ^a   Dorninger, Manfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA RECORDING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; SURFACE PHENOMENA; WEATHER FORECASTING;

MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER STATION;

EID: 31344469404     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2004/0013-0109     Document Type: Article

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