The ECMWF re-analysis for the AMMA observational campaign

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 136, Issue 651, 2010, Pages 1457-1472

  Agustí Panareda, Anna ^a   Beljaars, Anton ^a   Ahlgrimm, Maike ^a   Balsamo, Gianpaolo ^a   Bock, Olivier ^b   Forbes, Richard ^a   Ghelli, Anna ^a   Guichard, Françoise ^c   Köhler, Martin ^a   Meynadier, Remi ^b   Morcrette, Jean Jacques ^a  

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

^b SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

^c CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

Energy budget; Radiosonde; Water cycle; West african monsoon

Indexed keywords

BEST ESTIMATES; BIAS CORRECTION; DATA IMPACT; DATA SETS; ECMWF RE-ANALYSIS; ENERGY BUDGETS; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FUTURE MODELS; GLOBAL TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; KEY FEATURE; MODEL PHYSICS; MONSOON SEASON; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; RADIOSONDE DATAS; REANALYSIS; TECHNICAL PROBLEM; WATER CYCLE; WEST AFRICA; WEST AFRICAN MONSOON;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BUDGET CONTROL; DATA PROCESSING; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; RADIOSONDES; WEATHER SATELLITES;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ENERGY BUDGET; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; MONSOON; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIOSONDE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

WEST AFRICA;

EID: 77957132197     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.662     Document Type: Article

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