Sensitivity of limited-area hybrid variational-ensemble analyses and forecasts to ensemble perturbation resolution

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 143, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 3454-3477

  Schwartz, Craig S ^a   Liu, Zhiquan ^a   Huang, Xiang Yu ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; FORECASTING; HURRICANES; HYBRID SYSTEMS;

DATA ASSIMILATION; MESO-SCALE MODELS; MESOSCALE FORECASTING; MODEL EVALUATION/PERFORMANCE; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION/FORECASTING;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE MODELING; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PERTURBATION; RESOLUTION;

EID: 84945162590     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-14-00259.1     Document Type: Article

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