Current status and future developments of the ECMWF ensemble prediction system

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 163-175

  Buizza, R ^a   Barkmeijer, J ^a   Palmer, T N ^a   Richardson, D S ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RANDOM ERRORS;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTS; ENSEMBLE PREDICTION SYSTEMS; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; EUROPEAN RESEARCH; INITIAL PERTURBATION; PHYSICAL PROCESS; STATISTICAL MEASURES;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; FUTURE PROSPECT; INSTABILITY; PARAMETERIZATION; PREDICTION; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER STATION;

EID: 0000821892     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1350482700001456     Document Type: Article

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