Implementation of the initial ACCESS numerical weather prediction system

Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Journal

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 265-284

  Puri, K ^a   Dietachmayer, G ^a   Steinle, P ^a   Dix, M ^a   Rikus, L ^a   Logan, L ^a   Naughton, M ^a   Tingwell, C ^a   Xiao, Y ^a   Barras, V ^a   Bermous, I ^a   Bowen, R ^a   Deschamps, L ^a   Franklin, C ^a   Fraser, J ^a   Glowacki, T ^a   Harris, B ^a   Lee, J ^a   Le, T ^a   Roff, G ^a   Sulaiman, A ^a   Sims, H ^a   Sun, X ^a   Sun, Z ^a   Zhu, H ^a   Chattopadhyay, M ^a   Engel, C ^a   more..

^a Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; NUMERICAL METHOD; SIMULATOR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84874408763     PISSN: 1836716X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22499/2.6302.001     Document Type: Article

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