On the impact of re-centring initial conditions for ensemble forecasts

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 141, Issue 692, 2015, Pages 2571-2581

  Lang, Simon T K ^a   Bonavita, Massimo ^a   Leutbecher, Martin ^a  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ensemble forecasting; Ensemble of data assimilations; Perturbations for ensemble forecasting; Re centring; Representation of initial uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; METEOROLOGY;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ENSEMBLE PREDICTION SYSTEMS; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; HIGH RESOLUTION ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PRECIPITATION FREQUENCY; REPRESENTATION OF INITIAL UNCERTAINTY;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84946480633     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2543     Document Type: Article

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