The land surface analysis in the NCEP climate forecast system reanalysis

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1621-1630

  Meng, Jesse ^a   Yang, Rongqian ^a   Wei, Helin ^a   Ek, Michael ^a   Gayno, George ^a   Xie, Pingping ^a   Mitchell, Kenneth ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84869840416     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-11-090.1     Document Type: Article

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