Forecasting capabilities for the london 2012 olympics

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 883-896

  Golding, B W ^a   Ballard, S P ^b   Mylne, K ^a   Roberts, N ^b   Saulter, A ^a   Wilson, C ^a   Agnew, P ^a   Davis, L S ^a   Trice, J ^a   Jones, C ^a   Simonin, D ^b   Li, Z ^b   Pierce, C ^a   Bennett, A ^a   Weeks, M ^a   Moseley, S ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; METEOROLOGY;

FORECASTING CAPABILITY; NORTH ATLANTIC; OLYMPIC GAMES; OLYMPICS; PUBLIC INTEREST; UNIFIED MODELING; UNITED KINGDOM;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84905706683     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00102.1     Document Type: Article

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