Ensemble experiments on numerical weather prediction error and uncertainty for a north pacific forecast failure

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 12-31

  Hacker, Joshua P ^a   Krayenhoff, E Scott ^b   Stull, Roland B ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SATELLITE IMAGERY; STORMS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

BRITISH COLUMBIA , CANADA; ENSEMBLE SYSTEMS; FORECAST ERRORS; INITIAL CONDITIONS; LIMITED AREA MODELS; MODEL UNCERTAINTIES; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 2442488371     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: 15200434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(2003)018<0012:EEONWP>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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