Development and evolution of operational forecast systems for the coastal and Estuarine environment in NOAA's National Ocean Service

Proceedings of the International Conference on Estuarine and Coastal Modeling

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 671-684

  Aikman, Frank ^a   Vincent, Mark ^a   Patchen, Rich ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENT AND OPERATIONS; EARTH SYSTEM MODELING FRAMEWORK; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENTS; INTEGRATED OCEAN OBSERVING SYSTEMS; NATIONAL OCEAN SERVICES; OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS; OPERATIONAL FORECAST SYSTEM; OPERATIONAL MANAGEMENT;

ESTUARIES; MARINE APPLICATIONS; OCEANOGRAPHY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

FORECASTING;

EID: 78951476085     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/40990(324)37     Document Type: Conference Paper

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