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

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 143, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 2560-2580

  Caron, Jean François ^a   Milewski, Thomas ^a   Buehner, Mark ^a   Fillion, Luc ^a   Reszka, Mateusz ^a   Macpherson, Stephen ^a   St James, Judy ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Mesoscale forecasting; Model evaluation performance; Numerical weather prediction forecasting; Regional models

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; MESOSCALE FORECASTING; MODEL EVALUATION/PERFORMANCE; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION/FORECASTING; REGIONAL MODEL;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

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

CANADA;

EID: 84943377274     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-14-00353.1     Document Type: Article

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