A comparison of probabilistic forecasts from bred, singular-vector, and perturbed observation ensembles

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 128, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1835-1851

  Hamill, Thomas M ^a   Snyder, Chris ^a   Morss, Rebecca E ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; NUMERICAL METHOD; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0033913199     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2000)128<1835:ACOPFF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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