Coupled initialization in an ocean-atmosphere tropical cyclone prediction system

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 140, Issue 678, 2014, Pages 82-95

  Sandery, Paul A ^a,b   O'Kane, Terence J ^a,c  

^a Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

^b BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coupled modelling; Initialization; Predictability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84927567388     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2117     Document Type: Article

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