A method to find perturbations that trigger blocking onset: Conditional nonlinear optimal perturbations

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3935-3946

  Mu, Mu ^a,c   Jiang, Zhina ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

^c NONE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJOINT; ADVECTION PROCESS; BLOCKING ONSETS; CONDITIONAL NONLINEAR OPTIMAL PERTURBATIONS; CONSTRAINT CONDITIONS; ENSEMBLE PERTURBATIONS; FORECAST TIME; INITIAL PERTURBATIONS; LINEAR SINGULAR VECTORS; MEDIUM RANGES; NATURAL GENERALIZATIONS; NON-LINEAR EVOLUTIONS; NON-LINEAR INTERACTIONS; NON-LINEAR MODELS; NON-LINEAR PROCESS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC; SPATIAL STRUCTURES; STREAM FUNCTIONS; WEATHER REGIMES; ZONAL FLOWS;

AMPLIFICATION;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

AMPLIFICATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; NONLINEARITY; PERTURBATION; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; WEATHER FORECASTING; ZONAL FLOW;

EID: 65549096864     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JAS2621.1     Document Type: Article

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