Validation of time-lagged ensemble forecasts relevant for predicting aircraft wake vortices

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 625-634

  Dengler, Klaus ^a   Anger, Johanna ^a,b   Keil, Christian ^c  

^a Deutsches Fernerkundungsdatenzentrum   (Germany)

^b DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT WAKE VORTICES; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTS; FORECAST ERRORS; HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; HIGH-RESOLUTION MODELS; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; INITIAL CONDITIONS; LEADTIME; LOW LEVEL; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY; WAKE VORTEX; WEATHER REGIMES; WIND COMPONENTS; WIND DATA; WIND SPEED;

DATA PROCESSING; KINETIC ENERGY; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM; PREDICTION; VORTEX FLOW; WAKE; WIND FIELD; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84855481011     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2011/0255     Document Type: Article

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