General characteristics of stratospheric singular vectors

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 621-634

  Errico, Ronald M ^a,b   Gelaro, Ronald ^b   Novakovskaia, Elena ^b,c   Todling, Ricardo ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MESOSPHERE; NUMERICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 39749185485     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2007/0245     Document Type: Article

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