PEARP, the Météo-France short-range ensemble prediction system

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 141, Issue 690, 2015, Pages 1671-1685

  Descamps, L ^a   Labadie, C ^b   Joly, A ^b   Bazile, E ^b   Arbogast, P ^b   Cebron P ^b  

^a MÉTÉO FRANCE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Ensemble prediction; Global; Mesoscale; Operational forecast; Predictability; Short range forecast

Indexed keywords

HURRICANES; STORMS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ENSEMBLE PREDICTION; GLOBAL; MESOSCALE; OPERATIONAL FORECASTS; PREDICTABILITY;

PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

FRANCE;

EID: 84939467225     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2469     Document Type: Article

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