Reducing noise associated with the Monte Carlo Independent Column Approximation for weather forecasting models

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 137, Issue 654, 2011, Pages 219-228

  Hill, P G ^a   Manners, J ^a   Petch, J C ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

NWP; Radiation; Subgrid inhomogeneity

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE SIMULATION; INHOMOGENEITIES; MONTE CARLO; NEAR SURFACE TEMPERATURE; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; NWP; NWP MODEL; REDUCING NOISE; SPATIAL SCALE; SUBGRID INHOMOGENEITY; SUBGRID SCALE; TEMPORAL SCALE; UNIFIED MODEL; WEATHER FORECASTING MODEL;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLOUDS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RANDOM ERRORS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NOISE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 79251494497     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.732     Document Type: Article

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