Bred vectors and tropical pacific forecast errors in the NASA coupled general circulation model

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1305-1326

  Yang, Shu Chih ^a,c   Kalnay, Eugenia ^a   Cai, Ming ^b   Rienecker, Michele M ^c  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERRORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NASA; STATISTICS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; VECTORS; WIND STRESS;

(0 , 1) VECTORS; AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY (AMS); APPLIED (CO); BREEDING METHODS; COUPLED GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL (CGCM); COUPLED SYSTEMS; ENSEMBLE PREDICTIONS; FORECAST ERRORS; GLOBAL MODELING; HINDCAST; LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURES; OCEAN DATA ASSIMILATION (ODA); OPERATIONAL CONFIGURATION; SUB-SURFACE TEMPERATURE; VARIATIONS OF; WESTERLY WIND BURST (WWB);

FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; HINDCASTING; PERTURBATION; VECTOR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 45749111886     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007MWR2118.1     Document Type: Article

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