Potential use of transport and dispersion model ensembles for forecasting applications

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 639-655

  Stein, A F ^a   Ngan, F ^a,b   Draxler, R R ^a   Chai, T ^a,b  

^a NOAA Air Resources Laboratory Silver Spring   (United States)

^b Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Air quality; Ensembles; Model evaluation performance; Model output statistics; Tracers

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DISPERSIONS; FORECASTING; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS;

CROSS-APPALACHIAN TRACER EXPERIMENTS; ENSEMBLES; MODEL EVALUATION/PERFORMANCE; MODEL INFORMATIONS; MODEL OUTPUT STATISTICS; REDUCTION TECHNIQUES; TRAJECTORY MODELING; TRANSPORT AND DISPERSIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; BOUNDARY LAYER; DISPERSION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; PARAMETERIZATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84942754120     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: 15200434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-14-00153.1     Document Type: Article

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