The value of observations. III: Influence of weather regimes on targeting

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 133, Issue 628, 2007, Pages 1833-1842

  Cardinali, Carla ^a   Buizza, Roberto ^a   Kelly, Graeme ^a   Shapiro, Melvyn ^b   Thépaut, Jean Noël ^a  

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

^b NOAA Office of Weather and Air Quality   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Targeted observations

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; DATA PROCESSING; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; OCEANOGRAPHY; OPTIMIZATION; STORMS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; METEOROLOGICAL FLOW; TARGETED OBSERVATION; TROPICAL CYCLONE ACTIVITY;

METEOROLOGY;

DATA ASSIMILATION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VECTOR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 36749053002     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.148     Document Type: Article

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