Initial phase of the Hans-Ertel Centre for Weather Research - A virtual centre at the interface of basic and applied weather and climate research

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 193-208

  Weissmann, Martin ^a,b   Göber, Martin ^a,c   Hohenegger, Cathy ^a,d   Janjic, Tijana ^a,c   Keller, Jan ^a,c   Ohlwein, Christian ^a,e   Seifert, Axel ^a,c   Trömel, Silke ^a,e   Ulbrich, Thorsten ^a,f   Wapler, Kathrin ^a,c   Bollmeyer, Christoph ^a,e   Deneke, Hartwig ^g  

^a Hans Ertel Centre for Weather Research   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^f FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^g LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR TROPOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Forecast communication; Model development; Nowcasting; Numerical weather prediction (NWP); Reanalysis

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; MONITORING; NOWCASTING; NUMERICAL METHOD; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT;

GERMANY;

EID: 84925444700     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2014/0558     Document Type: Conference Paper

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