An effective configuration of ensemble size and horizontal resolution for the NCEP GEFS

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 782-794

  Ma, Juhui ^a,b,c   Zhu, Yuejian ^b   Wobus, Richard ^b   Wang, Panxing ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

ensemble mean forecast; ensemble size; horizontal resolution; NCEP operational GEFS; probabilistic forecast

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862693341     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-012-1249-y     Document Type: Article

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