A local formulation of the ensemble transform (ET) analysis perturbation scheme

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 985-993

  McLay, Justin ^a   Bishop, Craig H ^a   Reynolds, Carolyn A ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ensembles; Kalman filters; Numerical analysis modeling; Operational forecasting

Indexed keywords

ERROR VARIANCE; FLEET NUMERICAL METEOROLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY CENTERS; GLOBAL ET; MIDLATITUDES; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; OPERATIONAL FORECASTING; PERFORMANCE GAIN;

KALMAN FILTERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; KALMAN FILTER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; TRANSFORM; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 77955577510     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010WAF2222359.1     Document Type: Article

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