Stratospheric analysis and forecast errors using hybrid and sigma coordinates

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 142, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 476-485

  Eckermann, Stephen D ^a   Mccormack, John P ^a   Ma, Jun ^b   Hogan, Timothy F ^a   Zawdie, Katherine A ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Computational Physics Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; DISCRETIZATION ERRORS; ERROR SUPPRESSION; HYBRID EXPERIMENTS; OROGRAPHIC GRAVITY WAVES; STRATOSPHERIC ANALYSIS; VERTICAL COORDINATES; WEATHER AND CLIMATE MODELS;

ERRORS; EXPERIMENTS;

FORECASTING;

CORRECTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; GRAVITY WAVE; STRATOSPHERE; TERRAIN; TROPOPAUSE;

EID: 84892447550     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-13-00203.1     Document Type: Article

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