Enhancing COSMO-DE ensemble forecasts by inexpensive techniques

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 49-59

  Ben Bouallègue, Zied ^a   Theis, Susanne E ^a   Gebhardt, Christoph ^a  

^a DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ensemble forecasting; Neighborhood; Time lagged

Indexed keywords

ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ENSEMBLE PREDICTION SYSTEMS; LATERAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; NEIGHBORHOOD; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; PRECIPITATION THRESHOLD; PROBABILISTIC FORECASTS; TIME-LAGGED;

LASERS;

FORECASTING;

AIR TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY CONDITION; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GUST; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROBABILITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

GERMANY;

EID: 84877689010     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2013/0374     Document Type: Article

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