Examination of analysis and forecast errors of high-resolution assimilation, bias removal, and digital filter initialization with an ensemble kalman filter

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 140, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3992-4004

  Ancell, Brian C ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Mesoscale forecasting; Numerical weather prediction forecasting; Probability forecasts models distribution

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DATA; BIAS REMOVAL; COARSER GRID; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; DATA ASSIMILATION; DIFFERENT SCALE; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; FORECAST ERRORS; FORECAST IMPROVEMENTS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH RESOLUTION ANALYSIS; HIGHER RESOLUTION; INTEGRAL PART; MESOSCALE; NESTED GRID; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; OPERATIONAL ASSIMILATION; PROBABILITY FORECASTS; REAL-TIME FORECASTING; SURFACE WINDS; TEMPERATURE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE BIAS; WIND ANALYSIS;

DIGITAL FILTERS; KALMAN FILTERS;

FORECASTING;

AIR TEMPERATURE; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; KALMAN FILTER; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PROBABILITY; SURFACE WIND; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84871883856     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-11-00319.1     Document Type: Article

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