Ensemble forecasting

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 227, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 3515-3539

  Leutbecher, M ^a   Palmer, T N ^a  

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

Author keywords

Numerical weather prediction; Predictability; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL MODELS; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

'CURRENT; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ENSEMBLE PREDICTION SYSTEMS; EUROPEAN CENTER FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; FORECAST ERRORS; INITIAL CONDITIONS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; PREDICTABILITY; UNCERTAINTY;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 39549083006     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2007.02.014     Document Type: Article

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