Addressing model error through atmospheric stochastic physical parametrizations: Impact on the coupled ECMWF seasonal forecasting system

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 372, Issue 2018, 2014, Pages

  Weisheimer, Antje ^a,b   Corti, Susanna ^a,c   Palmer, Tim ^a,b   Vitart, Frederic ^a  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES AND CLIMATE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Atmospheric science; Complexity; Meteorology

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BACKSCATTERING; CLIMATOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METEOROLOGY; STOCHASTIC MODELS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND EFFECTS;

ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE; COMPLEXITY; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION; TROPICAL WESTERN PACIFIC;

STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

EID: 84901387299     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2013.0290     Document Type: Article

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