Experiments with EOF-based perturbation methods and their impact on the CPTEC/INPE ensemble prediction system

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1438-1459

  Mendonça, Antônio Marcos ^a   Bonatti, José Paulo ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINIC; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTS; ENSEMBLE PREDICTION SYSTEMS; ERROR CORRELATION; EXTRATROPICS; INITIAL PERTURBATION; MIDLATITUDES; PERTURBATION METHOD; Q-FIELDS; ROOT-MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SKILL SCORE; SOUTH AMERICA; SPECIFIC HUMIDITY; SURFACE PRESSURES; TARGET REGIONS; WEATHER PREDICTION;

FORECASTING; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; NANOFLUIDICS; SPACE RESEARCH;

PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SURFACE PRESSURE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 68249154993     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2581.1     Document Type: Article

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