Uncertainties in atmospheric surface pressure fields from global analyses

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 113, Issue 14, 2008, Pages

  Salstein, David A ^a,b   Ponte, Rui M ^a   Cady Pereira, Karen ^a  

^a ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; GEODETIC SATELLITES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; SEA LEVEL; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ALIASING; ANTARCTICA; BIAS AND VARIANCE; CENTRAL AFRICA; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; GLOBAL ANALYSIS; GRACE MISSION; GRAVITY DATA; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENTS; HIGH LATITUDES; JASON-1; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; OPERATIONAL ANALYSIS; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; PRESSURE FIELD; SATELLITE MISSION; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SURFACE PRESSURE FIELD; SURFACE PRESSURES; TIME-SCALES;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; DATA INTERPRETATION; GRAVITY FIELD; PRESSURE FIELD; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA LEVEL; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 71949097934     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JD009531     Document Type: Article

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