Ensemble prediction and parameter estimation system: The concept

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 138, Issue 663, 2012, Pages 281-288

  Järvinen, Heikki ^a   Laine, Marko ^a   Solonen, Antti ^b   Haario, Heikki ^b  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Closure parameter perturbation; NWP model tuning; On line optimization

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN PARAMETER ESTIMATION; COMPUTATIONAL TASK; ENSEMBLE PREDICTION; ENSEMBLE PREDICTION SYSTEMS; ENSEMBLE SIMULATION; NUMERICAL TESTS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; NWP MODEL; ONLINE OPTIMIZATION; OPTIMAL COMBINATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION METHOD; PARAMETER PERTURBATION; PARAMETER VALUES; PARAMETRIZATIONS; POSTERIOR PROBABILITY; SUBGRID SCALE;

ESTIMATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL TESTS;

FORECASTING;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ESTIMATION METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETERIZATION; PROBABILITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84858282885     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.923     Document Type: Article

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