Diagnosing remote origins of forecast error: Relaxation versus 4D-Var data-assimilation experiments

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 137, Issue 656, 2011, Pages 598-606

  Jung, Thomas ^a,b  

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

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Downstream development; Nudging; T PARC; Teleconnections; Tropical extratropical interaction

Indexed keywords

DOWNSTREAM DEVELOPMENT; NUDGING; T-PARC; TELECONNECTIONS; TROPICAL-EXTRATROPICAL INTERACTIONS;

CURRICULA; TROPICS; VALUE ENGINEERING;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; TELECONNECTION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 79955403278     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.781     Document Type: Article

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