Model error in weather and climate forecasting

Predictability of Weather and Climate

Volumn 9780521848824, Issue , 2006, Pages 391-427

  Allen, Myles ^a   Frame, David ^a   Kettleborough, Jamie ^b   Stainforth, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; SUPERCOMPUTERS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ANDERSONS; CLIMATE FORECASTING; CLIMATE FORECASTS; CUMULATIVE EFFECTS; ENSEMBLE-BASED FORECASTS; INCOMPLETE OBSERVATION; MODEL ERRORS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 33845646032     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511617652.016     Document Type: Chapter

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