New generation of multi-scale NWP system (GRAPES): General scientific design

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 53, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 3433-3445

  Chen, Dehui ^a   Xue, Jishan ^a   Yang, Xuesheng ^a   Zhang, Hongliang ^a   Shen, Xueshun ^a   Hu, Jianglin ^a   Wang, Yu ^b   Ji, Liren ^c   Chen, Jiabin ^c  

^a STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

^b NATIONAL SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Global and regional models; Multi scale unified model; Numerical weather prediction

Indexed keywords

EID: 56349163306     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-008-0494-z     Document Type: Article

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