Advancing polar prediction capabilities on daily to seasonal time scales

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 97, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1631-1647

  Jung, Thomas ^a   Gordon, Neil D ^b   Bauer, Peter ^c   Bromwich, David H ^d   Chevallier, Matttthieu ^e   Day, Jonathan J ^f   Dawson, Jackie ^g   Doblas Reyes, Francisco ^h   Fairall, Christopher ⁱ   Goessling, Helge F ^j   Holland, Marika ^k   Inoue, Jun ^l   Iversen, Trond ^m   Klebe, Stefanie ^j   Lemke, Peter ^j   Losch, Martin ^j   Makshtas, Alexander ⁿ   Mills, Brian ^o   Nurmi, Pertttti ^p   Perovich, Donald ^q   Reid, Philip ^r   Renfrew, Ian A ^s   Smith, Gregory ^o   Svensson, Gunilla ^t   Tolstykh, Mikhail ^u   Yang, Qinghua ^v   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b Neil Gordon Consulting   (New Zealand)

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

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^h INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

ⁱ NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^j ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^k NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^l NIPR Tokyo   (Japan)

^m NMI   (Norway)

ⁿ AARI   (Russian Federation)

^o ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^p FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^q Engineer Research and Development Center   (United States)

^r BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

^s UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^t STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^u INSTITUTE OF NUMERICAL MATHEMATICS   (Russian Federation)

^v NMEFC ^*  (China)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION;

DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS; INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY; OBSERVING SYSTEMS; PREDICTION CAPABILITY; PREDICTIVE CAPACITY; SHORT TERM PREDICTION;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84979955758     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-14-00246.1     Document Type: Article

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