A regional ensemble prediction system based on moist targeted singular vectors and stochastic parameter perturbations

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 443-462

  Li, Xiaoli ^a   Charron, Martin ^b   Spacek, Lubos ^b   Candille, Guillem ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; CONDENSATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

DEEP CONVECTION; REGIONAL ENSEMBLE PREDICTION SYSTEM; STRATIFORM PRECIPITATION;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PERTURBATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PREDICTION; STOCHASTICITY; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; VECTOR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 44449163411     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007MWR2109.1     Document Type: Article

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