Ensemble-based estimates of the predictability of wind-driven coastal ocean flow over topography

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2515-2537

  Kim, Sangil ^a   Samelson, R M ^a   Snyder, Chris ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; COASTAL CIRCULATION; COASTAL OCEAN; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FORECAST INTERVAL; INITIAL CONDITIONS; INSTABILITY GROWTH; LATERAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; MODELING STUDIES; OCEAN MODEL SIMULATIONS; PREDICTIVE INFORMATION; PRIMITIVE EQUATIONS; RELATIVE ENTROPY; ROOT-MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; STRONG WINDS; SUMMER UPWELLING; TIME-SCALES; TOPOGRAPHIC FEATURES; WIND FORCING;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ERROR STATISTICS; FLOW SIMULATION; OCEAN CURRENTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIMULATORS; TIME SERIES;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AMPLITUDE; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CORRELATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ENTROPY; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PREDICTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; UPWELLING; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND FORCING; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION; WIND-DRIVEN CURRENT;

OREGON SHELF; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 70350338751     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR2631.1     Document Type: Article

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