Medium-range ensemble sensitivity analysis of two extreme pacific extratropical cyclones

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 211-231

  Chang, Edmund K M ^a   Zheng, Minghua ^a   Raeder, Kevin ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE GUIDANCE; ATMOSPHERIC FLOWS; DEVELOPMENT CHARACTERISTICS; EXTRATROPICAL CYCLONES; INITIAL CONDITIONS; LINEAR SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR EVOLUTIONS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; FORECASTING; NANOFLUIDICS; STORMS;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; EXTREME EVENT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

EID: 84874842095     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-11-00304.1     Document Type: Article

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