A new approach to sensitivity climatologies: The DTS-MEDEX-2009 campaign

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2381-2390

  Jansa, A ^a   Arbogast, P ^b   Doerenbecher, A ^b   Garcies, L ^c   Genoves, A ^d   Homar, V ^c   Klink, S ^e   Richardson, D ^f   Sahin, C ^f  

^a AEMET   (Spain)

^b MÉTÉO FRANCE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^d AEMET   (Spain)

^e DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SURVEY; CLIMATOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOSONDE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 80052413936     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-11-2381-2011     Document Type: Review

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