The behavior of synoptic-scale errors in the Eta Model

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 134, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3355-3366

  Elmore, Kimberly L ^a,b   Schultz, David M ^a,b   Baldwin, Michael E ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; VORTEX FLOW; WATER WAVES;

ETA MODEL; FORECAST MODELS; SYNOPTIC-SCALE ERRORS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA PROCESSING; ERROR ANALYSIS; GEOPOTENTIAL; HEIGHT; LONGWAVE RADIATION; TROUGH; VORTICITY;

NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; PACIFIC COAST [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33845402344     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3238.1     Document Type: Article

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