The Developmental Testbed Center and its Winter Forecasting experiment

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 611-627

  Bernardet, Lígia ^a,d   Nance, Louisa ^b   Demirtas, Meral ^b   Koch, Steve ^a   Szoke, Edward ^a,e   Fowler, Tressa ^b   Loughe, Andrew ^a,f   Mahoney, Jenni Luppens ^a   Chuang, Hui Ya ^c   Pyle, Matthew ^c   Gall, Robert ^b  

^a EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c National Centers for Environmental Prediction   (United States)

^d Systems Research Group   (United States)

^e Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^f Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; EXPERIMENTS; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY (AMS); CASE STUDIES; CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES; GRID SPACINGS; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; MESOSCALE MODEL (MM5); MODEL DEVELOPERS; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTION (NCEP); NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE (NWS); NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION (NWP); REAL TIME EXPERIMENTS; TEST BEDS; TO MANY; UNCERTAINTY MEASURES; WEATHER FORECAST OFFICES (WFO); WEATHER PREDICTION; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING (WRF); WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING (WRF) MODELS;

FORECASTING;

EID: 47649118746     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-89-5-611     Document Type: Article

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