TY  - BOOK
AU  - Woods,Austin
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Medium-Range Weather Prediction: The European Approach 
SN  - 9780387269290
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Springer New York
KW  - METEOROLOGY
KW  - REMOTE SENSING
KW  - CLIMATIC CHANGES
KW  - GEOSCIENCES
KW  - METEOROLOGY/CLIMATOLOGY
KW  - APPLIED GEOSCIENCES
KW  - COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN GEOSCIENCES
KW  - REMOTE SENSING/PHOTOGRAMMETRY
KW  - CLIMATE CHANGE
N1  - The first Director -- The beginnings - the political background -- Meteorological developments 1967 to 1971 -- The Project Study -- The Convention -- In the United Kingdom -- 1794 to 1980: The Formative Years -- The Analysis System - OI to 4D-Var -- The Medium-Range Model -- Ensemble prediction - forecasting the error -- Seasonal prediction -- Wave prediction -- Data from on high -- Re-analysis - towards a new ERA -- Archives and Graphics: towards MARS, MAGICS and Metview -- The computer system: CDC, Cray, Fujitsu, IBM -- Communicating the forecasts: mail and 50 baud to RMDCN -- Commercial issues -- The Staff -- And the outlook is ?
N2  - This book provides an overview of the early years of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts and reviews the work of the institute over the past 30 years. As such it describes the European approach to medium-range weather forecasting
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b138324
ER  -