Reducing forecast errors due to model imperfections using ensemble kalman filtering

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 3316-3332

  Koyama, Hiroshi ^a,b   Watanabe, Masahiro ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; ENSEMBLE FORECASTS; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTERING; FORECAST ERRORS; INITIAL CONDITIONS; LEADTIME; MODEL PARAMETERS; PARAMETERIZING; PERFECT MODEL; STATE AUGMENTATION; THEORETICAL BASIS; TIME DEPENDENT PARAMETER; TIME VARYING PARAMETER; TIME-SCALES;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ERRORS; KALMAN FILTERS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR CORRECTION; KALMAN FILTER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 77958565843     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3067.1     Document Type: Article

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