Temporal-spatial distribution of atmospheric predictability limit by local dynamical analogs

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 139, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3265-3283

  Li, Jianping ^a   Ding, Ruiqiang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PREDICTABILITY; GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT; LOCAL LYAPUNOV EXPONENTS; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; PREDICTABILITY LIMIT; THREE-VARIABLE MODELS; WIND FIELD;

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERICS; LYAPUNOV METHODS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TIME SERIES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CHAOTIC SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; NONLINEARITY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PREDICTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STRATOSPHERE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND FIELD;

EID: 80052409333     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-10-05020.1     Document Type: Article

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