Analysis differences and error variance estimates from multi-centre analysis data

Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Journal

Volumn 59, Issue SPECIAL ISSUE, 2010, Pages 25-34

  Wei, Mozheng ^a   Toth, Zoltan ^a   Zhu, Yuejian ^a  

^a CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SET; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 80054998150     PISSN: 1836716X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22499/2.5901.005     Document Type: Article

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