Improved diagnostics for NWP verification in the tropics

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 114, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Koh, Tieh Yong ^a,b   Ng, Jun Siang ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RESEARCH LABORATORIES; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS; TROPICS;

BACKGROUND FLOW; BIAS CORRECTION; DEW POINT DEPRESSION; ERROR ELLIPSE; FORECAST TIME; LIMITED AREA MODELS; MESOSCALE; MIDLATITUDES; MODEL DYNAMICS; MODEL PERFORMANCE; NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY; PREDICTION SYSTEMS; RADIOSONDE DATAS; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE ERRORS; SOUTH CHINA SEA MONSOON EXPERIMENTS; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TROPICAL REGIONS; VECTOR WIND; WIND ERRORS; WIND PREDICTION;

FORECASTING;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; FORECASTING METHOD; LABORATORY METHOD; MONSOON; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PERSISTENCE; PREDICTION; RADIOSONDE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; WIND;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 68849112483     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JD011179     Document Type: Article

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