The 15-km version of the Canadian regional forecast system

Atmosphere - Ocean

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 133-149

  Mailhot, Jocelyn ^a   Bélair, Stéphane ^a   Lefaivre, Louis ^a   Bilodeau, Bernard ^a   Desgagné, Michel ^a   Girard, Claude ^a   Glazer, Anna ^a   Leduc, Anne Marie ^a   Méthot, André ^a   Patoine, Alain ^a   Plante, André ^a   Rahill, Alan ^a   Robinson, Tom ^a   Talbot, Donald ^a   Tremblay, André ^a   Vaillancourt, Paul ^a   Zadra, Ayrton ^a   Qaddouri, Abdessamad ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; HURRICANE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; OROGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SATELLITE DATA; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 33745594614     PISSN: 07055900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3137/ao.440202     Document Type: Article

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