Development and testing of a coupled ocean-atmosphere mesoscale ensemble prediction system

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 61, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1937-1954

  Holt, Teddy R ^a   Cummings, James A ^a   Bishop, Craig H ^a   Doyle, James D ^a   Hong, Xiaodong ^a   Chen, Sue ^a   Jin, Yi ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coupled ocean atmosphere modeling; Ensembles; Probabilistic prediction; Tropical cyclones; Variational analyses

Indexed keywords

ASSIMILATION SYSTEM; COUPLED OCEAN/ATMOSPHERE MESOSCALE PREDICTION SYSTEM; ENSEMBLE FORECASTS; ENSEMBLE PREDICTION SYSTEMS; ENSEMBLE SIMULATION; ENSEMBLES; ERROR COVARIANCES; INITIAL STATE; MESOSCALE; MODEL ERRORS; MODEL RESOLUTION; NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY; NAVY COASTAL OCEAN MODELS; NRL ATMOSPHERIC VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; OCEAN DATA ASSIMILATION; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE; PROBABILISTIC PREDICTION; PROBABILISTIC PRODUCTS; RISK MANAGEMENT APPLICATION; SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTY; STORM TRACK; SYSTEM COMPONENTS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL CYCLONES; UNCERTAINTY INFORMATIONS; VARIATIONAL ANALYSES;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; DATA PROCESSING; HURRICANES; OCEAN CURRENTS; RESEARCH LABORATORIES; RISK MANAGEMENT;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MOISTURE CONTENT; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TROPICAL CYCLONE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 81155150310     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-011-0449-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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