A grid-enabled regional-scale ensemble forecasting system in the mediterranean area

Journal of Grid Computing

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 181-197

  Lagouvardos, Kostas ^a   Floros, Evangelos ^b   Kotroni, Vassiliki ^a  

^a NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Greek Research and Technology Network SA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Ensemble forecasting; Grid computing; Weather models

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL EUROPE; DATA STORAGE; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ENSEMBLE SYSTEMS; EUROPEAN RESEARCH PROJECT; GRID INFRASTRUCTURES; GRID TECHNOLOGIES; LARGE-SCALE APPLICATIONS; LIMITED AREA MODELS; MEDITERRANEAN AREAS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; PROBABILISTIC FORECASTS; PROCESSING POWER; PRODUCTION LEVEL; REGIONAL SCALE; WEATHER MODELS;

DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRIC LOAD FORECASTING; GRID COMPUTING; MANAGEMENT; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING; THUNDERSTORMS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 77952404270     PISSN: 15707873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10723-010-9150-3     Document Type: Article

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