Toward a standardized metadata protocol for urban meteorological networks

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 94, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1161-1185

  Muller, Catherine L ^a   Chapman, Lee ^a   Grimmond, C S B ^b,c   Young, Duick T ^a   Cai, Xiao Ming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CAPABILITIES; DENSE SENSOR NETWORKS; METEOROLOGICAL MONITORING; NEAR-REAL TIME; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TRANSMITTING DATA; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS;

SENSOR NETWORKS; URBAN PLANNING;

METADATA;

EID: 84883288815     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00096.1     Document Type: Article

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