Fine-resolution 4DVAR data assimilation for the Great Plains tornado outbreak of 3 May 1999

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 506-525

  Zupanski, Dusanka ^a   Zupanski, Milija ^a   Rogers, Eric ^a   Parrish, David F ^a   Dimego, Geoffrey J ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; WIND;

DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS;

TORNADOES;

DATA ASSIMILATION; HUMIDITY; JET FLOW; TORNADO; WIND SHEAR;

GREAT PLAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036614654     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(2002)017<0506:FRDAFT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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