Very large ensemble ocean forecasting experiment using the grid computing infrastructure

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 799-804

  Pinardi, Nadia ^a   Bonazzi, Alessandro ^b   Scoccimarro, Enrico ^b   Dobricic, Srdjan ^c   Navarra, Antonio ^b,c   Ghiselli, Antonia ^d   Veronesi, Paolo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c CENTRO EURO MEDITERRANEO SUI CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI   (Italy)

^d INFN SEZIONE DI BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COVARIANCE MATRIX; EARTH SCIENCES; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERRORS; EXPERIMENTS; GRID COMPUTING; OCEANOGRAPHY;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR COVARIANCE MATRIX; FORECAST UNCERTAINTIES; FORECASTING SYSTEMS; GRID INFRASTRUCTURES; INITIAL CONDITIONS; INITIAL STATES; MESO-SCALE; MODEL PHYSICS; ONE WAY; PREDICTION ERRORS;

FORECASTING;

EID: 49249122250     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008BAMS2511.1     Document Type: Article

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