Predictability of the performance of an ensemble forecast system: Predictability of the space of uncertainties

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 962-981

  Satterfield, Elizabeth ^a   Szunyogh, Istvan ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; ENSEMBLE FORECAST SYSTEMS; ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE; ENSEMBLE PERTURBATION; ENSEMBLE PREDICTION SYSTEMS; ERROR GROWTH; FORECAST TIME; FORECAST UNCERTAINTY; GLOBAL FORECAST SYSTEMS; LINEAR REPRESENTATION; LINEAR SPACES; LOCAL ERROR; LOCAL REGION; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; PERFECT MODEL; TIME EVOLUTIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COVARIANCE MATRIX; DATA PROCESSING; METADATA; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ESTIMATION METHOD; KALMAN FILTER; NUMERICAL METHOD; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PERTURBATION; SIMULATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 77953199182     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR3049.1     Document Type: Article

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