The impact of targeted observations made during the Greenland Flow Distortion experiment

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 135, Issue 645, 2009, Pages 2012-2029

  Irvine, E A ^a   Gray, S L ^a   Methven, J ^a   Renfrew, I A ^b   Bovisc, K ^c   Swinbank, R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ensemble transform kalman filter; Predictability; Sensitive area prediction; Singular vectors

Indexed keywords

FLOW DISTORTION; FORECAST ERRORS; FORECAST IMPROVEMENTS; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; GREENLAND; HINDCASTS; ICELANDS; INITIAL CONDITIONS; SENSITIVE AREA; SENSITIVE AREA PREDICTION; SINGULAR VECTORS; TOTAL ENERGY SINGULAR VECTORS; UNIFIED MODEL; UPPER-LEVEL TROUGH;

EXPERIMENTS; KALMAN FILTERS; RESEARCH AIRCRAFT;

FORECASTING;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; HINDCASTING; KALMAN FILTER; SATELLITE DATA; TRANSFORM; VECTOR;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 74849084709     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.499     Document Type: Article

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