A diagnostic suite to assess NWP performance

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 117, Issue 13, 2012, Pages

  Koh, T Y ^a,b,c   Wang, S ^a   Bhatt, B C ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; TROPICS;

AMPLITUDE ERRORS; BROKEN DOWN; DATA SETS; ERROR DECOMPOSITION; ERROR METRICS; ERROR VARIANCE; INHERENT VARIABILITY; MESOSCALE; MIDLATITUDES; MODEL ERRORS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; PREDICTION SYSTEMS; ROOT-MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; TIMING ERRORS;

ERRORS;

AMPLITUDE; ANISOTROPY; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CORRELATION; DATA SET; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84864041558     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JD017103     Document Type: Article

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