Implementation of deterministic weather forecasting systems based on ensemble-variational data assimilation at Environment Canada. Part I: The global system

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 143, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 2532-2559

  Buehner, Mark ^a   McTaggart Cowan, Ron ^a   Beaulne, Alain ^a   Charette, Cécilien ^a   Garand, Louis ^a   Heilliette, Sylvain ^a   Lapalme, Ervig ^a   Laroche, Stéphane ^a   Macpherson, Stephen R ^a   Morneau, Josée ^a   Zadra, Ayrton ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Model initialization; Numerical weather prediction forecasting

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL FILTERS; FORECASTING;

AIRCRAFT OBSERVATIONS; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; DATA ASSIMILATION; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; MEDIUM RANGE FORECAST; MODEL INITIALIZATION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION/FORECASTING; VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIRBORNE SURVEY; AUTUMN; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR CORRECTION; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; RADIOSONDE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CANADA;

EID: 84937014589     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-14-00354.1     Document Type: Article

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