Perturbation growth at the convective scale for CSIP IOP18

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 136, Issue 648, 2010, Pages 653-670

  Leoncini, G ^a   Plant, R S ^a   Gray, S L ^a   Clark, P A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ensemble forecasting; Forecasting; Quantitative precipitation; Root mean square error

Indexed keywords

CLOUD PARAMETERS; CONVECTIVE INSTABILITIES; CONVECTIVE STORMS; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GRID POINTS; INDIRECT EFFECTS; INTENSIVE OBSERVATION PERIODS; PHYSICAL PROCESS; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; ROOT-MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; TIME STEP; TYPICAL SCALE; UNIFIED MODEL;

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ACOUSTICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; MESH GENERATION;

FORECASTING;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AMPLITUDE; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE MODELING; CONVECTION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PERTURBATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STORM; WAVE GENERATION; WAVE PROPAGATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 77953068634     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.587     Document Type: Article

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