Sensitivity of global ensemble forecasts to the initial ensemble mean and perturbations: Comparison of EnKF, singular vector, and 4D-var approaches

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3886-3904

  Buehner, Mark ^a   Mahidjiba, Ahmed ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENSEMBLE FORECASTS; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; ENSEMBLE PERTURBATION; ENSEMBLE PREDICTION SYSTEMS; EXTRATROPICS; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; INITIAL PERTURBATION; LEAD TIME; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE OF CANADA; MOIST PROCESS; OPERATIONAL CONFIGURATION; PROBABILISTIC FORECASTS; SINGULAR VECTORS; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; TIME INTERVAL;

DATA PROCESSING; TROPICS; VALUE ENGINEERING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; FORECASTING METHOD; KALMAN FILTER; PERTURBATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CANADA;

EID: 77958477276     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3296.1     Document Type: Article

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