Evaluation of the NCEP global forecast system at the ARM SGP site

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 134, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3668-3690

  Yang, Fanglin ^a   Pan, Hua Lu ^a   Krueger, Steven K ^b   Moorthi, Shrinivas ^a   Lord, Stephen J ^a  

^a CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; HEAT FLUX; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; TROPOSPHERE;

CANCELLATION OF ERRORS; CLOUD PROPERTIES; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTION GLOBAL FORECAST SYSTEM; SINGLE-COLUMN MODEL; SURFACE DOWNWARD LONGWAVE FLUX; SURFACE DOWNWARD SHORTWAVE FLUX;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ERROR CORRECTION; LATENT HEAT FLUX; NUMERICAL MODEL; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; WEATHER FORECASTING;

STRAWBERRY GREEN PETAL PHYTOPLASMA;

EID: 33846255009     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3264.1     Document Type: Article

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