title: Spatiotemporal stochastic forcing effects in an ensemble consisting of arrays of diffusively coupled Lorenz cells.
abstract: Spatiotemporal stochastic forcing of an ensemble system consisting of chaotic Lorenz cells diffusively coupled is analyzed. The nontrivial effects of time and length correlations on the ensemble mean error and spread are studied and the implications to new trends in weather forecast methodologies are discussed. A maximum for the forecast scores is observed to occur for specific values of time and length correlations. This maximum is studied in terms of an interplay between the natural scales occurring in the system and the noise parameters.
authors.affiliation: Group of Nonlinear Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Santiago de Compostela, E-15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain. nieves@fmares.usc.es
authors.forename: Maria Nieves
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Lorenzo
authors.forename: Miguel A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Santos
authors.forename: Vicente
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Pérez-Muñuzuri
mesh_terms: D005544:Forecasting; D015233:Models, Statistical; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D013997:Time Factors; D014887:Weather