Lidar-measured wind profiles: The missing link in the global observing system

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 543-564

  Baker, Wayman E ^a   Atlas, Robert ^b   Cardinali, Carla ^c   Clement, Amy ^d   Emmitt, George D ^e   Gentry, Bruce M ^f   Hardesty, R Michael ^g   Källén, Erland ^c   Kavaya, Michael J ^h   Langland, Rolf ⁱ   Ma, Zaizhong ^k   Masutani, Michiko ^a   McCarty, Will ^f   Pierce, R Bradley ^a   Pu, Zhaoxia ^l   Riishojgaard, Lars Peter ^j   Ryan, James ^m   Tucker, Sara ⁿ   Weissmann, Martin ^o   Yoe, James G ^k  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^e SIMPSON WEATHER ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^f NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^h NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^j WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^k Joint Center for Satellite and Data Assimilation   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

ⁿ BALL AEROSPACE AND TECHNOLOGIES CORP   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREENHOUSE GASES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; AFRICAN EASTERLY JET; GENERAL CIRCULATION; GLOBAL OBSERVING SYSTEMS; GREENHOUSE-GAS FORCING; INITIAL CONDITIONS; NUMERICAL WEATHER FORECASTS; TROPICAL ATMOSPHERES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84904129427     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00164.1     Document Type: Article

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