A comparative method to evaluate and validate stochastic parametrizations

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 135, Issue 642, 2009, Pages 1095-1103

  Hermanson, Leon ^a   Hoskins, Brian ^a   Palmer, Tim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

High resolution; Numerical weather prediction; Subgrid scale

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE PREDICTION MODEL; COMPARATIVE METHODS; GAIN INFORMATION; HIGH RESOLUTION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; PARAMETRIZATIONS; RANDOM DISTRIBUTION; STOCHASTIC PARAMETRIZATION; SUBGRID SCALE; THERMODYNAMIC EQUATIONS; WAVE-WAVE INTERACTIONS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; STOCHASTICITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 70149095223     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.436     Document Type: Article

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