Performance characteristics of a pseudo-operational ensemble Kalman filter

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3947-3963

  Torn, Ryan D ^a,b   Hakim, Gregory J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT COMMUNICATION; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; CONTROL THEORY; ERROR STATISTICS; ERRORS; KALMAN FILTERS; MOISTURE; RADIOSONDES; WAVE FILTERS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLOUD MOTION VECTORS; CONTROL EXPERIMENTS; DETERMINISTIC FORECASTS; DIRECT OBSERVATIONS; DO-MAINS; EASTERN NORTH PACIFIC; ENSEMBLE FORECASTS; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTERS; LATERAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; MEAN ERRORS; MODEL FORMULATIONS; MOISTURE FIELDS; MONOTONICALLY; NORTH AMERICA; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTIONS; OPERATIONAL FORECASTS; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; REAL TIMES; REPORTING SYSTEMS; SURFACE OBSERVATION DATUMS; SURFACE STATIONS; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS; WIND DATUMS;

FORECASTING;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTER; MODELING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 57149141566     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2443.1     Document Type: Article

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