Worldwide survey of awareness and needs concerning reanalyses and respondents views on climate services

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 97, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1461-1474

  Gregow, H ^a   Jylha K ^a   Makela H M ^a   Aalto, J ^b   Manninen, T ^a   Karlsson, P ^a   Kaiser Weiss, A K ^c   Kaspapar, F ^c   Poli, P ^d   Tan, D G H ^d   Obregon, A ^e   Su, Z ^f  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

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

^e Group on Earth Observations   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SURVEYS;

CLIMATE INFORMATION; CLIMATE PREDICTION; ONLINE SURVEYS; REANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84986229324     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-14-00271.1     Document Type: Article

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