The north atlantic waveguide and downstream impact experiment

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 99, Issue 8, 2018, Pages 1607-1637

  Schäfler, Andreas ^a   Craig, George ^b   Wernli, Heini ^c   Arbogast, Philippe ^d   Doyle, JAmes ^e   Mctaggart Cowan, Ron ^f   Methven, John ^g   Rivière, Gwendal ^h   Ament, Felix ⁱ   Boettcher, Maxi ^c   Bramberger, Martina ^a   Cazenave, Quitterie ^j   Cotton, Richard ^k   Crewell, Susanne ^l   Delanoë, Julien ^j   DörnbrAck, Andreas ^a   Ehrlich, André ^m   Ewald, Florian ^a   Fix, Andreas ^a   Grams, Christian ^c   Gray, Suzanne ^g   Grob, Hans ^b   Groß, Silke ^a   Hagen, Martin ^a   Harvey, Ben ^g   Hirsch, Lutz ⁿ   JAcob, Marek ^l   Kölling, Tobias ^b   Konow, Heike ⁱ   Lemmerz, Christian ^a   Lux, Oliver ^a   Magnusson, Linus ^o   Mayer, Bernhard ^b   Mech, Mario ^l   Moore, Richard ^p   Pelon, Jacques ^j   Quinting, Julian ^c,q   Rahm, Stephan ^a   Rapp, Markus ^a   Rautenhaus, Marc ^r   Reitebuch, Oliver ^a   Reynolds, Carolyn A ^e   Sodemann, Harald ^s   Spengler, Thomas ^s   Vaughan, Geraint ^t   Wendisch, Manfred ^m   Wirth, Martin ^a   Witschas, Benjamin ^a,i   Wolf, Kevin ^m   Zinner, Tobias ^b   more..

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^e NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^f ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^h ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^j SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

^k MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^l UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^m UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

ⁿ MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

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

^p UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^q MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^r TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^s UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^t UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85048438510     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0003.1     Document Type: Article

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