The COST 723 action

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 133, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2007, Pages 99-108

  Lahoz, W A ^a,d   Buehler, S A ^b   Legras, B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^d NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Lower stratosphere; Modelling; Networks; Upper troposphere

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

HUMIDITY MEASUREMENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY;

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DATA ASSIMILATION; MODELING; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 36949001337     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.158     Document Type: Review

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