Stochastic representations of model uncertainties at ECMWF: State of the art and future vision

M Leutbecher, SJ Lock, P Ollinaho… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Members in ensemble forecasts differ due to the representations of initial uncertainties and
model uncertainties. The inclusion of stochastic schemes to represent model uncertainties …

Stochastic weather and climate models

TN Palmer - Nature Reviews Physics, 2019 - nature.com
Although the partial differential equations that describe the physical climate system are
deterministic, there is an important reason why the computational representations of these …

The ECMWF ensemble prediction system: Looking back (more than) 25 years and projecting forward 25 years

T Palmer - Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This paper has been written to mark 25 years of operational medium‐range ensemble
forecasting. The origins of the ECMWF Ensemble Prediction System are outlined, including …

HarmonEPS—the HARMONIE ensemble prediction system

IL Frogner, ULF Andrae, J Bojarova… - Weather and …, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
HarmonEPS is the limited-area, short-range, convection-permitting ensemble prediction
system developed and maintained by the HIRLAM consortium as part of the shared ALADIN …

Revision of the stochastically perturbed parametrisations model uncertainty scheme in the integrated forecasting system

STK Lang, SJ Lock, M Leutbecher… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Stochastically Perturbed Parametrisations scheme (SPP) represents model
uncertainty in numerical weather prediction by introducing stochastic perturbations into the …

Stochastic parameterization of processes leading to convective initiation in kilometer-scale models

M Hirt, S Rasp, U Blahak, GC Craig - Monthly Weather Review, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
Kilometer-scale models allow for an explicit simulation of deep convective overturning but
many subgrid processes that are crucial for convective initiation are still poorly represented …

Stochastic methods and complexity science in climate research and modeling

CLE Franzke, R Blender, TJ O'Kane, V Lembo - Frontiers in Physics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The 2021 Nobel prize for physics was awarded to two climate scientists, Syukuro Manabe
and Klaus Hasselmann, and the physicist Giorgio Parisi. While at first sight the work of Parisi …

An Update to the Stochastically Perturbed Parameterization Scheme of HarmonEPS

A Tsiringakis, IL Frogner, W De Rooy… - Monthly Weather …, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
High-resolution, limited-area forecasting is strongly affected by errors in the initial
atmospheric state, lateral boundary conditions (LBCs), and physical parameterizations used …

Constraining stochastic parametrisation schemes using high‐resolution simulations

HM Christensen - … Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Stochastic parametrisations can be used in weather and climate models to improve the
representation of unpredictable unresolved processes. When compared with a deterministic …

Flow-dependent reliability: A path to more skillful ensemble forecasts

MJ Rodwell, DS Richardson… - Bulletin of the …, 2018 - journals.ametsoc.org
While chaos ensures that probabilistic weather forecasts cannot always be “sharp,” it is
important for users and developers that they are reliable. For example, they should not be …