Influence of the North American monsoon experiment (NAME) 2004 enhanced soundings of NCEP operational analysis

Journal of Climate

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1821-1842

  Mo, Kingtse C ^a   Rogers, Eric ^a   Ebisuzaki, Wesley ^a   Higgins, R Wayne ^a   Woollen, J ^a   Carrera, M L ^b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b RS Information Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DATA PROCESSING; SOUNDING ROCKETS;

CLIMATE DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM; NORTH AMERICAN MONSOON EXPERIMENT; REGIONAL CLIMATE DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM; THREE-DIMENSIONAL VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; MONSOON; REAL TIME; REGIONAL CLIMATE; REMOTE SENSING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

GULF OF CALIFORNIA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 34249673351     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI4083.1     Document Type: Article

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