Impact of surface parameter uncertainties within the canadian regional ensemble prediction system

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1506-1526

  Lavaysse, Christophe ^a   Carrera, Marco ^b   Bélair, Stéphane ^b   Gagnon, Normand ^b   Frenette, Ronald ^b   Charron, Martin ^b   Yau, M K ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENSEMBLE PREDICTION SYSTEMS; LAND SURFACE SCHEME; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; PROGNOSTIC VARIABLES; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; STOCHASTIC PERTURBATIONS; SURFACE PERTURBATIONS;

EXPERIMENTS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SOIL MOISTURE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WIND EFFECTS;

FORECASTING;

AIR TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLOUD; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIAL VARIATION; STOCHASTICITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND VELOCITY;

CANADA;

EID: 84878197634     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-11-00354.1     Document Type: Article

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