Forecast skill of the ECMWF model using targeted observations during FASTEX

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 125, Issue 561, 1999, Pages 3219-3240

  Montani, A ^a   Thorpe, A J ^b   Buizza, R ^b   Unden P ^b  

^a ARPA SMR   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Adaptive observations; Forecast errors; Singular vectors

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; CYCLOGENESIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FASTEX; FORECASTING METHOD;

EID: 0033509045     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/smsqj.56104     Document Type: Article

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