Balance properties of the short-range forecast errors in the ECMWF 4D-Var ensemble

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 139, Issue 674, 2013, Pages 1229-1238

  Zagar N ^a,b   Isaksen, L ^c   Tan, D ^c   Tribbia, J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b Centre of Excellence 'SPACE SI'   (Slovenia)

^c EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

4D Var ensemble; Data assimilation; Forecast errors; Inertio gravity waves; Normal modes; Tropical waves

Indexed keywords

4D-VAR ENSEMBLE; ASSIMILATION SYSTEM; BAROTROPIC STRUCTURES; DATA ASSIMILATION; FORECAST ERROR VARIANCE; FORECAST ERRORS; NORMAL MODES; SHORT-TERM FORECASTS;

VALUE ENGINEERING;

FORECASTING;

BAROTROPIC MOTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; EQUATORIAL WAVE; ERROR ANALYSIS; GRAVITY WAVE; KELVIN WAVE; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84880699842     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2033     Document Type: Article

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