An Earth-system prediction initiative for the twenty-first century

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 91, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1377-1388

  Shapiro, Melvyn ^a,b   Shukla, Jagadish ^c,d   Brunet, Gilbert ^e   Nobre, Carlos ^f   Béland, Michel ^e   Dole, Randall ^g   Trenberth, Kevin ^a   Anthes, Richard ^h   Asrar, Ghassem ⁱ   Barrie, Leonard ⁱ   Bougeault, Philippe ^j   Brasseur, Guy ^k   Burridge, David ⁱ   Busalacchi, Antonio ^l   Caughey, Jim ⁱ   Chen, Deliang ^m,n   Church, John ^o   Enomoto, Takeshi ^p   Hoskins, Brian ^q,r   Hov, Øystein ^s   Laing, Arlene ^a   Le Treut, Hervé ^t   Marotzke, Jochem ^u   McBean, Gordon ^v   Meehl, Gerald ^a   Miller, Martin ^w   Mills, Brian ^e   Mitchell, John ^x   Moncrieff, Mitchell ^a   Nakazawa, Tetsuo ^y   Olafsson, Haraldur ^b,z   Palmer, Tim ^w,aa   Parsons, David ⁱ   Rogers, David ^ab   Simmons, Adrian ^w   Troccoli, Alberto ^q   Toth, Zoltan ^g   Uccellini, Louis ^ac   Velden, Christopher ^ad   Wallace, John M ^ae   more..

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Institute of Global Environment and Society   (United States)

^e ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^f INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^g EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

ⁱ WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^j MÉTÉO FRANCE   (France)

^k INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^l UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

ⁿ International Council for Science   (France)

^o BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

^p JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^q UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^r IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^s NORWEGIAN METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^t LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^u MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^v UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

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

^x MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^y METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^z UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^aa UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^ab Health and Climate Foundation   (United States)

^ac NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^ad UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^ae UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; FORECASTING; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; STORMS;

CAPE TOWN , SOUTH AFRICA; CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND CHANGE; HIGH RESOLUTION CLIMATE MODEL; INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS; INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM; SAND AND DUST STORMS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ORBITS;

EID: 77956254605     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010BAMS2944.1     Document Type: Article

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