Impact of a spectral sampling technique for radiation on ECMWF weather forecasts

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1288-1300

  Bozzo, Alessio ^a   Pincus, Robert ^b   Sandu, Irina ^a   Morcrette, Jean Jacques ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

atmospheric modeling; radiative transfer; weather forecasts

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COST REDUCTION; COSTS; ERRORS; FORECASTING; IMAGE RESOLUTION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; NEAR SURFACE TEMPERATURE; OPERATIONAL CONFIGURATION; RADIATION CALCULATIONS; STABLE NOCTURNAL BOUNDARY LAYERS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BOUNDARY LAYER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORECASTING METHOD; HEATING; SAMPLING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EUROPE;

EID: 84923108014     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19422466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014MS000386     Document Type: Article

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