Urban integrated meteorological observations: Practice and experience in Shanghai, China

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 85-102

  Tan, Jianguo ^a   Yang, Limin ^b   Grimmond, C S B ^c   Shi, Jianping ^a   Gu, Wen ^a   Chang, Yuanyong ^a   Hu, Ping ^b   Sun, Juan ^b   Ao, Xiangyu ^a   Han, Zhihui ^a  

^a Shanghai   (China)

^b Shanghai Meteorologic Center   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; CLIMATE MODELS; DECISION MAKING;

ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; COORDINATION STRATEGY; DATA AND INFORMATION; DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATION; PRACTICE AND EXPERIENCE;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84928558378     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00216.1     Document Type: Article

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