Representing model uncertainty in weather and climate prediction

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 33, Issue , 2005, Pages 163-193

  Palmer, Tim N ^a   Shutts, G J ^a   Hagedorn, R ^a   Doblas Reyes, F J ^a   Jung, T ^a   Leutbecher, M ^a  

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

Author keywords

Multimodel ensembles; Stochastic dynamic parameterization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; ENSEMBLE PREDICTION SYSTEMS; STOCHASTIC DYNAMIC SCHEMES;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE MODELING; FORECASTING METHOD; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 20544469481     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.33.092203.122552     Document Type: Article

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