The use of empirical orthogonal functions in quasigeostrophic numerical prediction models

Svante Bodin

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v26i5.9864

The use of empirical orthogonal functions in quasigeostrophic numerical prediction models

Tellus

Volume 26 (1974): Issue 5

By: Svante Bodin

Open Access

|Jan 1974

Abstract

An integrated quasi-geostrophic numerical prediction model is developed by using empirical orthogonal functions for the vertical representation. Friction is included in a simple way. Problems arising from the computations of the coefficients of the model are discussed using a linearized version of the corresponding 2-parameter (2 e.o.f.) model. Finally results from test integrations during an 8-day period are discussed in terms of root mean square errors and correlation coefficients.

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