An examination of background error correlations between mass and rotational wind over precipitation regions

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 563-578

  Caron, Jean Francois ^a   Fillion, Luc ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS SYSTEM; ATMOSPHERIC DATA; BACKGROUND ERRORS; BALANCE CHARACTERISTICS; DATA ASSIMILATION; DIABATIC; DIABATIC PROCESS; DRY AREAS; FORECAST ERRORS; GEOSTROPHIC BALANCE; LOWER ATMOSPHERE; NEW APPROACHES; PRECIPITATION AREAS; SHORT-TERM FORECASTS;

DATA PROCESSING;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; CORRELATION; COUPLING; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; PERTURBATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND;

EID: 77953202951     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR2998.1     Document Type: Article

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