Role of the stratosphere on the predictability of medium-range weather forecast: A case study of winter 2003-2004

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 19, 2008, Pages

  Kuroda, Yuhji ^a  

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; FORECASTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MILITARY OPERATIONS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CASE STUDIES; CLIMATE MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES; MIDDLE ATMOSPHERES; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; STRATOSPHERIC SUDDEN WARMINGS; STRATOSPHERIC VARIABILITIES; ZONAL VARIABILITIES;

UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; JET STREAM; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; STRATOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING; WINTER; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 57749210401     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL034902     Document Type: Article

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