Ensemble sensitivity tools for assessing extratropical cyclone intensity and track predictability

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1133-1156

  Zheng, Minghua ^a   Chang, Edmund K M ^a   Colle, Brian A ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; EXTRATROPICAL CYCLONES; MEAN SEA LEVEL PRESSURES; NORTH-EASTERN PACIFIC; OPERATIONAL FORECASTERS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; SOUTHERN GREAT PLAINS;

MECHANICAL WAVES; SEA LEVEL; WAVE PACKETS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CYCLONE; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATLANTIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; ATLANTIC COAST [UNITED STATES]; GREAT PLAINS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); UNITED STATES;

EID: 84885765000     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: 15200434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-12-00132.1     Document Type: Article

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