Test models for filtering and prediction of moisture-coupled tropical waves

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 139, Issue 670, 2013, Pages 119-136

  Harlim, John ^a   Majda, Andrew J ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Madden Julian Oscillation; Multicloud models; Reduced stochastic filters; Tropical data assimilation

Indexed keywords

CLOUD TYPES; CONVECTIVE PARAMETRIZATION; COUPLED WAVES; DATA ASSIMILATION; EIGEN MODES; FILTERING METHOD; KEY FEATURE; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MODEL ERRORS; MULTI-SCALE FEATURES; PHYSICAL PROCESS; PRECIPITATION RATES; STOCHASTIC FILTERS; TEST EXAMPLES; TEST MODELS; TEST PROBLEM; TRAVELLING WAVES; TROPICAL CONVECTION;

ALGORITHMS; COVARIANCE MATRIX; FORECASTING; MODELS; MOISTURE; RECOVERY; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TROPICS; VALUE ENGINEERING;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; EASTERLY WAVE; FORECASTING METHOD; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MODEL TEST; MOISTURE; STOCHASTICITY; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84873313708     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.1956     Document Type: Article

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