NOMADS: A climate and weather model archive at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 327-341

  Rutledge, Glenn K ^a   Alpert, Jordan ^b   Ebisuzaki, Wesley ^b  

^a NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

^b CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES; WEATHER SATELLITES;

CLIMATE MODEL; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION (NWP) MODEL; WEATHER MODEL;

CLIMATOLOGY;

EID: 33645534097     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-87-3-327     Document Type: Article

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