Predictability and targeted observations

Predictability of Weather and Climate

Volumn 9780521848824, Issue , 2006, Pages 561-583

  Thorpe, Alan J ^a   Petersen, GuÐrún Nína ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; STORMS;

ENSEMBLE PREDICTION; EXTRATROPICAL CYCLONES; INITIAL CONDITIONS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; PROBABILITY ESTIMATION; SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS; TWO-WAY INTERACTION; VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 34247239730     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511617652.022     Document Type: Chapter

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