The 1000-member ensemble kalman filtering with the JMA nonhydrostatic mesoscale model on the K computer

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 623-633

  Masaru, Kunii ^a  

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Ensemble forecasting; High performance computing

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTER; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT;

JAPAN;

EID: 84924700313     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.2014-607     Document Type: Article

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