Systematic errors of the atmospheric circulation in the ECMWF forecasting system

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 131, Issue 607, 2005, Pages 1045-1073

  Jung, Thomas ^a  

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

Author keywords

Bias; Blocking; Eddy kinetic energy; ERA 40; Error growth; Reanalysis

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINETIC ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; EDDY KINETIC ENERGY; STANDARD DEVIATION;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FORECASTING METHOD; KINETIC ENERGY;

EID: 20544446370     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.04.93     Document Type: Article

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