On the relative benefits of a multi-centre grand ensemble for tropical cyclone track prediction in the western North Pacific

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 138, Issue 669, 2012, Pages 2019-2029

  Yamaguchi, Munehiko ^a   Nakazawa, Tetsuo ^a,b   Hoshino, Shunsuke ^a  

^a JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

^b WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ensemble prediction system; THORPEX; TIGGE

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; HURRICANES; INDUSTRY;

CONFIDENCE INFORMATION; CONFIDENCE LEVELS; DATA SETS; ENSEMBLE MEMBERS; ENSEMBLE PREDICTION SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; POSITION ERRORS; SKILL SCORE; THORPEX; TIGGE; TIME-SCALES; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

FORECASTING;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; STORM TRACK; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 85027950954     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.1937     Document Type: Article

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