The use of an ensemble approach to study the background error covariances in a global NWP model

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 134, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2466-2489

  Pereira, Margarida Belo ^a   Berre, Loïk ^b  

^a INSTITUTO PORTUGUÊS DO MAR E DA ATMOSFERA   (Portugal)

^b CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DATA PROCESSING; ERROR STATISTICS; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ANALYSIS ENSEMBLE METHOD; NATIONAL METEOROLOGICAL CENTER (NMC) METHOD; OPERATIONAL VARIANCES;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 33749027769     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3189.1     Document Type: Article

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