Impact of radiosonde balloon drift on numerical weather prediction and verification

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 772-782

  Laroche, Stéphane ^a   Sarrazin, Réal ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; FORECAST VERIFICATIONS; GLOBAL TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; RADIOSONDE OBSERVATIONS; VERIFICATION SYSTEMS;

BALLOONS; DATA PROCESSING; METEOROLOGY; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

RADIOSONDES;

BALLOON OBSERVATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA TRANSMISSION; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIOSONDE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84880028046     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: 15200434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-12-00114.1     Document Type: Article

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