Incremental correction for the dynamical downscaling of ensemble mean atmospheric fields

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 3087-3101

  Yoshimura, Kei ^a   Kanamitsu, Masao ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FIELDS; BRUTE-FORCE APPROACH; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; DYNAMICAL DOWNSCALING; ENSEMBLE AVERAGES; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTERING; OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS; PROBABILISTIC FORECASTS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY;

FORECASTING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; DOWNSCALING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTER; PROBABILITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84883754649     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00271.1     Document Type: Article

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