Quality control tests for western Turkey Mesonet

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 330-337

  Sönmez, Ibrahim ^a  

^a ONDOKUZ MAYIS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Mesonet; Quality control tests; Quality flag; Turkey

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; ASYMMETRIC DIGITAL SUBSCRIBER LINES (ADSL); DIGITAL RADIO; EMERGENCY TRAFFIC CONTROL; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; METEOROLOGY; MODEMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; TELEPHONE LINES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; GPRS (GENERAL PACKET RADIO SERVICE); MESONET; OBSERVATION QUALITIES; QUALITY CONTROL TESTS; SHORT-RANGE FORECASTING; TURKEY; VERY SMALL APERTURE TERMINALS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

FLOOD FORECASTING; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; QUALITY CONTROL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TESTING METHOD;

TURKEY;

EID: 84883558191     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: 14698080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/met.1286     Document Type: Article

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