The transformation of earth-system observations into information of socio-economic value in GEOSS

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 131, Issue 613, 2006, Pages 3493-3512

  Hollingsworth, Anthony ^a   Uppala, Sakari ^a   Klinker, Ernst ^a   Burridge, David ^a   Vitart, Frederic ^a   Onvlee, Jeanette ^b   de Vries, J W ^b   de Roo, A D ^c   Pfrang, Christian ^a  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^c JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Earth system models; Lead time alerts; Multi seasonal forecasting

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY FORECASTS; COASTAL STORM; CROP YIELD; DATA ASSIMILATION; EARTH OBSERVATIONS; EARTH-SYSTEM MODELS; END-USER APPLICATIONS; GROUP ON EARTH OBSERVATIONS; LARGE RIVERS; LEAD-TIME ALERTS; LEADTIME; MULTI-SEASONAL FORECASTING; SOCIO-ECONOMIC BENEFITS; SOCIO-ECONOMICS; SYSTEM INFORMATION; SYSTEM MODELLING; SYSTEM MODELS; SYSTEM OF SYSTEMS; TIME-SCALES; WORLD SUMMIT ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

AGRICULTURE; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; ECONOMICS; FLOODS; MODEL STRUCTURES; OBSERVATORIES; STRATEGIC PLANNING; VALUE ENGINEERING;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 69749108164     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.05.181     Document Type: Article

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