Ocean ensemble forecasting. Part I: Ensemble Mediterranean winds from a Bayesian hierarchical model

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 137, Issue 657, 2011, Pages 858-878

  Milliff, Ralph F ^a   Bonazzi, Alessandro ^b   Wikle, Christopher K ^c   Pinardi, Nadia ^b   Berliner, L Mark ^d  

^a NORTHWEST RESEARCH ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ECMWF analysis winds; Physics based priors; QuikSCAT surface winds

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN HIERARCHICAL MODEL; DATA RECORDS; DYNAMICAL INTERPRETATION; ECMWF ANALYSIS WINDS; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ENSEMBLE MEMBERS; ENSEMBLE METHODS; EQUATION MODELS; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; FORECAST SYSTEMS; INITIAL CONDITIONS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MESOSCALE; OCEAN FORECASTS; OCEAN-STATE VARIABLES; PHYSICAL BALANCE; PHYSICS-BASED; POSTERIOR DISTRIBUTIONS; PROCESS MODEL; QUIKSCAT; RAYLEIGH; STANDARD DEVIATION; STATISTICAL MODELLING; SURFACE WINDS; VECTOR WIND;

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WIND;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; QUIKSCAT; SURFACE WIND; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND FORCING;

EID: 79957898339     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.767     Document Type: Article

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