Characterizing and optimizing precipitation forecasts from a convection-permitting ensemble initialized by a mesoscale ensemble kalman filter

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1295-1318

  Schwartz, Craig S ^a   Romine, Glen S ^a   Smith, Kathryn R ^a   Weisman, Morris L ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Ensembles; Mesoscale models; Model evaluation performance; Numerical weather prediction forecasting

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; KALMAN FILTERS; RAIN;

DETERMINISTIC TECHNIQUE; ENSEMBLES; HORIZONTAL GRID SPACING; MESO-SCALE MODELS; MODEL EVALUATION/PERFORMANCE; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION/FORECASTING; RELATIVE OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTER; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROBABILITY; RAINFALL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84916240934     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: 15200434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-13-00145.1     Document Type: Article

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