Correction of 2 m-temperature forecasts using Kalman Filtering technique

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 183-197

  Libonati, Renata ^a   Trigo, Isabel ^b   DaCamara, Carlos C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

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

Author keywords

Kalman filter; Statistical forecast correction

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; KALMAN FILTERS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; PARAMETERIZATION; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

HEAT WAVES; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; STATISTICAL FORECAST CORRECTION;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERROR CORRECTION; KALMAN FILTER; NUMERICAL MODEL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 37649001543     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2007.08.006     Document Type: Article

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