Diagnosing the origin of extended-range forecast errors

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2434-2446

  Jung, T ^a   Miller, M J ^a   Palmer, T N ^a  

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

Author keywords

Boundary conditions; Data assimilation; Forecasting; Northern Hemisphere; Stratosphere; Tropics; Winter cool season

Indexed keywords

BOREAL WINTERS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ECMWF RE-ANALYSIS; EXTENDED RANGE; EXTRATROPICAL; FORECAST ERRORS; FORECASTING SYSTEM; HIGH LATITUDES; LOWER BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MEDIUM RANGE; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH PACIFIC; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; STRATOSPHERE; TROPICAL ATMOSPHERES; TROPICAL STRATOSPHERE; TROPICAL TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERICS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DATA PROCESSING; ERRORS; EXPERIMENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; FORECASTING METHOD; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONALITY; STRATOSPHERE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 77954474232     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3255.1     Document Type: Article

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