Origin and impact of initialization shocks in coupled atmosphere-ocean forecasts

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 143, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 4631-4644

  Mulholland, David P ^a   Laloyaux, Patrick ^b   Haines, Keith ^a   Balmaseda, Magdalena Alonso ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

Atmosphere ocean interaction; Coupled models; Data assimilation; Model initialization; Numerical weather prediction forecasting; Surface fluxes

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; FORECASTING; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; COUPLED MODELS; DATA ASSIMILATION; MODEL INITIALIZATION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION/FORECASTING; SURFACE FLUX;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; DATA ASSIMILATION; NUMERICAL METHOD; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84949845095     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-15-0076.1     Document Type: Article

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