Toward an integrated set of surface meteorological observations for climate science and applications

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 98, Issue 12, 2017, Pages 2689-2702

  Thorne, P W ^a   Allan, R J ^b   Ashcroft, L ^c   Brohan, P ^b   Dunn, R J H ^b   Menne, M J ^d   Pearce, P R ^e   Picas, J ^f   Willett, K M ^b   Benoy, M ^g   Bronnimann, S ^h   Canziani, P O ⁱ   Coll, J ^a   Crouthamel, R ^j   Compo, G P ^k   Cuppett, D ^j   Curley, M ^l   Duffy, C ^b   Gillespie, I ^a   Guijarro, J ^m   Jourdain, S ⁿ   Kent, E C ^o   Kubota, H ^p   Legg, T P ^b   Li, Q ^q   Matsumoto, J ^r   Murphy, C ^a   Rayner, N A ^b   Rennie, J J ^s   Rustemeier, E ^t   Slivinski, L C ^k   Slonosky, V ^u   Squintu, A ^v   Tinz, B ^t   Valente, M A ^w   Walsh, S ^l   Wang, X L ^x   Westcott, N ^y   Wood, K ^z   Woodruff, S D ^d,k   Worley, S J ^aa   more..

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^f UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^g BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

ⁱ Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^j International Environmental Data Rescue Organization   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^l Irish Meteorological Service   (Ireland)

^m AEMET   (Spain)

ⁿ MÉTÉO FRANCE   (France)

^o NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^p UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^q SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^r TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^s NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^t DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

^u MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^v ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^w UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^x ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^y UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^z UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^aa NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METEOROLOGY;

CLIMATE SCIENCE; FULLY INTEGRATED; METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATION; METEOROLOGICAL RECORDS;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

EID: 85030251086     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0165.1     Document Type: Article

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