Comparison between singular vectors and breeding vectors as initial perturbations for the ECMWF ensemble prediction system

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 4092-4104

  Magnusson, Linus ^a   Leutbecher, Martin ^b   Källén, Erland ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; FORECASTING; MILITARY CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

BREEDING SYSTEMS; ENSEMBLE PREDICTION SYSTEMS; ERROR VARIANCES; FORECAST SYSTEMS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; PERTURBATION AMPLITUDES; PERTURBATION ENERGIES; PROBABILISTIC SCORES; RESCALING; SET-UPS; SINGULAR VECTORS; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERES;

VECTORS;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; PERTURBATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 54949136699     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2498.1     Document Type: Article

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