Feasibility of a 100-year reanalysis using only surface pressure data

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 175-190

  Compo, Gilbert P ^a   Whitaker, Jeffrey S ^a   Sardeshmukh, Prashant D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; DATA REDUCTION; SEA LEVEL; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; TROPOSPHERIC CIRCULATION;

METEOROLOGY;

EID: 33645036297     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-87-2-175     Document Type: Article

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