Impact study of the 2003 North Atlantic THORPEX regional campaign

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 132, Issue 615, 2006, Pages 275-295

  Fourrié, Nadia ^a   Marchal, David ^a   Rabier, Florence ^a   Chapnik, Bernard ^a   Desroziers, Gerald ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

Dropsondes; Forecast score; Observing system experiment; Sensitive areas

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; INFRARED RADIATION; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; RADIOSONDES; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

DEGREES OF FREEDOM FOR SIGNAL; DROPSONDES; FORECAST SCORE; OBSERVING-SYSTEM EXPERIMENT; SENSITIVE AREAS;

METEOROLOGY;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 33645519034     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.05.31     Document Type: Article

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