The impact of radiosonde data over the ice-free Arctic Ocean on the atmospheric circulation in the Northern Hemisphere

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 864-869

  Inoue, Jun ^a,b   Enomoto, Takeshi ^a,c   Hori, Masatake E ^a  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

data assimilation; ice free Arctic; radiosonde

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; ICE-FREE ARCTIC; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; MARGINAL ICE ZONE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; RADIOSONDE OBSERVATIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDS; DATA PROCESSING; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIOSONDES; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ICE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYCLOGENESIS; DATA SET; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; RADIOSONDE; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ARCTIC OCEAN; JAPAN;

EID: 84876815596     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50207     Document Type: Article

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