Using operational weather radar to assess high-resolution numerical weather prediction over the British Isles for a cold air outbreak case-study

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 140, Issue 678, 2014, Pages 225-239

  Mcbeath, K ^a   Field, P R ^a   Cotton, R J ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cell tracking; Cluster analysis; Unified model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922810434     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2123     Document Type: Article

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