A latent heat nudging scheme for the assimilation of precipitation data into an operational mesoscale model

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 269-277

  Jones, C D ^a   Macpherson, B ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LATENT HEAT; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); WEATHER FORECASTING;

ASSIMILATION ALGORITHMS; HIGH RESOLUTION NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTIONS; MESO-SCALE MODELING; PRECIPITATION DISTRIBUTION; PRECIPITATION RATES; SUBJECTIVE ASSESSMENTS; SURFACE PRECIPITATION; WEATHER RADAR NETWORKS;

BOUNDARY LAYERS;

DATA SET; MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADAR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0000415898     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1350482797000522     Document Type: Article

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