Ensemble forecasts and the properties of flow-dependent analysis-error covariance singular vectors

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 131, Issue 8 PART 2, 2003, Pages 1741-1758

  Hamill, Thomas M ^a   Snyder, Chris ^b   Whitaker, Jeffrey S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DATA ACQUISITION; ERROR ANALYSIS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; STATISTICAL METHODS; VECTORS;

ERROR GROWTH;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE MODELING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0038028288     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175//2559.1     Document Type: Article

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