Ensemble transformation and adaptive observations

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1748-1765

  Bishop, Craig H ^a   Toth, Zoltan ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; STORMS;

ADAPTIVE OBSERVATIONAL NETWORK; ENSEMBLE TRANSFORM TECHNIQUE; FRONTS AND ATLANTIC STORM TRACKS EXPERIMENT;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; PREDICTION;

EID: 0033149819     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1999)056<1748:ETAAO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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