Towards a GME ensemble forecasting system: Ensemble initialization using the breeding technique

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 707-718

  Keller, Jan D ^a   Kornblueh, Luis ^b   Hense, Andreas ^a   Rhodin, Andreas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^c DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS RANKED PROBABILITY SCORES; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTS; ENSEMBLE PERTURBATION; ENSEMBLE PREDICTION SYSTEMS; ENSEMBLE SIMULATION; FURTHER DEVELOPMENT; GEOPOTENTIALS; LEAD TIME; MODEL ERRORS; OPERATIONAL FORECASTS; OPERATIONAL USAGE; PRECIPITATION FORECASTING; SKILL SCORE;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RANKING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

EID: 63449089683     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2008/0333     Document Type: Article

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