Estimation of predictability with a newly derived index to quantify similarity among ensemble members

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 135, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2674-2687

  Yamada, Tomohito J ^a   Koster, Randal D ^b   Kanae, Shinjiro ^a,c   Oki, Taikan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITY AND NATURE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

MATHEMATICAL STRUCTURE; STATISTICAL INDEX;

METEOROLOGY;

ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ESTIMATION METHOD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 34447629445     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3418.1     Document Type: Article

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