Performance of the ECMWF operational analyses over the tropical Indian Ocean

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 132, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 2275-2282

  Nagarajan, Badrinath ^a   Aiyyer, Anantha R ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; TEMPERATURE; TROPOSPHERE; WIND;

ECMWF ANALYSES; TROPOPAUSE; WIND SPEEDS;

AIR;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; HUMIDITY; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR; WIND VELOCITY;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 4644225809     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2004)132<2275:POTEOA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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