Influence of a stochastic parameterization on the frequency of occurrence of North Pacific weather regimes in the ECMWF model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 23, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Jung, T ^a   Palmer, T N ^a   Shutts, G J ^a,b  

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

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT CONVECTION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION MODELS; CONTROL INTEGRATION; GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT ANOMALIES; STOCHASTIC PARAMETERIZATION;

METEOROLOGY;

CLIMATE MODELING; PARAMETERIZATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 31544445484     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL024248     Document Type: Article

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