Environment Canada's experimental numerical weather prediction systems for the Vancouver 2010 winter olympic and paralympic games

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 91, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1073-1085

  Mailhot, J ^a   Belair S ^a   Charron, M ^a   Doyle, C ^a   Joe, P ^a   Abrahamowicz, M ^a   Bernier, N B ^a   Denis, B ^a   Erfani, A ^a   Frenette, R ^a   Giguere A ^a   Isaac, G A ^a   McLennan, N ^a   McTaggart Cowan, R ^a   Milbrandt, J ^a   Tong, L ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED SYSTEMS; ENSEMBLE PREDICTION SYSTEMS; GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL MULTISCALE MODELS; HIGH RESOLUTION; LAND SURFACE MODELING; MESOSCALE; MESOSCALE MODEL; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCHES; NUMERICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; OLYMPICS; PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY; PREDICTION SYSTEMS; WEATHER SERVICES;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLIMATOLOGY;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 77249137728     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010BAMS2913.1     Document Type: Article

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