North American regional reanalysis

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 343-360

  Mesinger, Fedor ^a,b   DiMego, Geoff ^a   Kalnay, Eugenia ^c   Mitchell, Kenneth ^a   Shafran, Perry C ^a,d   Ebisuzaki, Wesley ^a   Jović, Dušan ^a,d   Woollen, Jack ^a,d   Rogers, Eric ^a   Berbery, Ernesto H ^c   Ek, Michael B ^a,b   Fan, Yun ^a,e   Grumbine, Robert ^a   Higgins, Wayne ^a   Li, Hong ^c   Lin, Ying ^a   Manikin, Geoff ^a   Parrish, David ^a   Shi, Wei ^a  

^a CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Bldg 142   (United States)

^d SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^e RS Information Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TROPOSPHERE; WIND;

COMPREHENSIVE PRECIPITATION ANALYSIS; LAND SURFACE MODEL; PRECIPITATION ASSIMILATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM (R-CDAS); TROPOSPHERIC TEMPERATURES; TROPOSPHERIC WINDS;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

EID: 33645538119     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-87-3-343     Document Type: Article

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