Toward regional climate services: The role of NOAA's regional climate centers

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 91, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1633-1644

  De Gaetano, Arthur T ^a   Brown, Timothy J ^b   Hilberg, Steven D ^c   Redmond, Kelly ^b   Robbins, Kevin ^d   Robinson, Peter ^e   Shulski, Martha ^f   McGuirk, Marjorie ^g  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^g NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE DATA; CLIMATE INFORMATION; DATA SYSTEMS; DIRECT LINKS; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION; OPERATIONAL CAPACITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; RESEARCH AGENDA;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 79251490701     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010BAMS2936.1     Document Type: Article

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