The TIGGE project and its achievements

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 49-67

  Swinbank, Richard ^a   Kyouda, Masayuki ^b   Buchanan, Piers ^a   Froude, Lizzie ^c   Hamill, Thomas M ^d   Hewson, Tim D ^e   Keller, Julia H ^f   Matsueda, Mio ^g,h   Methven, John ^c   Pappenberger, Florian ^i,j   Scheuerer, Michael ^d   Titley, Helen A ^a   Wilson, Laurence ^k   Yamaguchi, Munehiko ^l  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^f DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^j HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^k ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^l METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINS; FORECASTING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

DOWNSTREAM REGION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTS; ENSEMBLE PREDICTION; INTERNATIONAL RESEARCHES; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; OBSERVING SYSTEMS; PROBABILISTIC FORECASTS; RESEARCH ACTIVITIES;

DIGITAL STORAGE;

EID: 84959165186     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00191.1     Document Type: Article

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