"Jumpiness" of the ECMWF and Met office EPS control and ensemble-mean forecasts

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3823-3836

  Zsoter, Ervin ^a,b   Buizza, Roberto ^a   Richardson, David ^a  

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

^b HUNGARIAN METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENSEMBLE SYSTEMS; FORECAST ERRORS; FORECAST UNCERTAINTY; INCONSISTENCY INDEX; WEAK LINKS;

FLIP FLOP CIRCUITS; TIME SERIES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

FORECASTING;

ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EUROPE;

EID: 77649280448     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR2960.1     Document Type: Article

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