An assessment of marine surface winds from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology numerical weather prediction systems

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 613-636

  Schulz, Eric W ^a   Kepert, Jeffrey D ^a   Greenslade, Diana J M ^a  

^a BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARINE SURFACE WINDS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION SYSTEMS; SCATTEROMETER;

ANEMOMETERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; STORMS; WIND;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL METHOD; PREDICTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SCATTEROMETER; STORM; SURFACE WIND; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 34447626113     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF996.1     Document Type: Article

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