A new method for generating initial condition perturbations in a regional ensemble prediction system: Blending

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 142, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2043-2059

  Wang, Yong ^a   Bellus, Martin ^b   Geleyn, Jean Francois ^c   Ma, Xulin ^d   Tian, Weihong ^e   Weidle, Florian ^a  

^a ZAMG Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik   (Austria)

^b Slovak Hydro meteorological Institute   (Slovakia)

^c CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^d NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^e NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL FILTERS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

DYNAMICAL DOWNSCALING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ENSEMBLE PREDICTION SYSTEMS; ENSEMBLE SYSTEMS; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; INITIAL CONDITIONS; LATERAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES;

BLENDING;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DOWNSCALING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; PERTURBATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84899834400     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00354.1     Document Type: Article

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