Improvement of ensemble reliability with a new dressing kernel

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 131, Issue 607, 2005, Pages 965-986

  Wang, Xuguang ^a,b   Bishop, Craig H ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ensemble postprocessing; Overdispersive; Second moment measure; Underdispersive

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; CONSTRAINT THEORY; KALMAN FILTERING; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

COOLING DEGREE DAYS; ENSEMBLE POSTPROCESSING; SECOND MOMENT MEASURE;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA PROCESSING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS;

EID: 27644443229     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.04.120     Document Type: Article

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