Oceanic stochastic parameterizations in a seasonal forecast system

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 144, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1867-1875

  Andrejczuk, M ^a,b   Cooper, F C ^a   Juricke, S ^a   Palmer, T N ^a   Weisheimer, A ^a,c   Zanna, Laure ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

Coupled models; Forecasting; Model errors; Models and modeling; Parameterization; Seasonal forecasting; Stochastic models; Subgrid scale processes

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PARAMETERIZATION; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; COUPLED MODELS; FORECAST RELIABILITY; MODEL ERRORS; OCEANIC VARIABILITIES; SEASONAL FORECASTING; SUB-GRID SCALE PROCESS; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENTS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ERROR ANALYSIS; PARAMETERIZATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; STOCHASTICITY; WEATHER FORECASTING; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84966331067     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-15-0245.1     Document Type: Article

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