Sensitivity experiments for ensemble forecasts of the extratropical transition of Typhoon Tokage (2004)

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 136, Issue 646, 2010, Pages 183-200

  Anwender, Doris ^a   Jones, Sarah C ^a   Leutbecher, Martin ^b   Harr, Patrick A ^c  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

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

^c NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Ensemble prediction; Tropical cyclone

Indexed keywords

ENSEMBLE FORECASTS; ENSEMBLE MEMBERS; ENSEMBLE PREDICTION; ENSEMBLE PREDICTION SYSTEMS; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; EXTRATROPICAL TRANSITION; IN-PROCESS; LATENT HEAT RELEASE; MIDLATITUDES; PERTURBATION METHOD; ROSSBY WAVE; SINGULAR VECTORS; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

EXPERIMENTS; FLOW PATTERNS; OCEAN CURRENTS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; STORMS; TROPICS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

HURRICANES;

CYCLOGENESIS; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LATENT HEAT FLUX; PERTURBATION; PREDICTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY; STORM TRACK; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPOSPHERE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 77249154555     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.527     Document Type: Article

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