Nonlinear characteristics of ensemble perturbation evolution and their application to forecasting high-impact events

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1353-1365

  Ancell, Brian C ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive models; Ensembles; Forecasting; Short range prediction

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MODELS; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; ENSEMBLE PERTURBATION; ENSEMBLES; MIDLATITUDE CYCLONES; NONLINEAR CHARACTERISTICS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; SHORT-RANGE PREDICTIONS;

FORECASTING; METEOROLOGY;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CYCLONE; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTER; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; NONLINEARITY; STORM TRACK; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84891638946     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: 15200434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-12-00090.1     Document Type: Article

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