Detection, tracking and event localization of jet stream features in 4-D atmospheric data

Geoscientific Model Development

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 457-470

  Limbach, S ^a,b   Schomer E ^a   Wernli, H ^b  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC MOTION; CLIMATOLOGY; DETECTION METHOD; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; JET STREAM; PRECISION; SEGMENTATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; TRACKING; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84859927156     PISSN: 1991959X     EISSN: 19919603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-5-457-2012     Document Type: Article

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