High-resolution weather forecasting over complex orography: Sensitivity to the assimilation of conventional data

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 136-154

  Faccani, Claudia ^a   Ferretti, Rossella ^a   Visconti, Guido ^a  

^a CtrForecastSevereWthrRemote   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CLIMATOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL);

OROGRAPHY;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; OROGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); WEATHER FORECASTING;

ALPS; EUROPE;

EID: 0041803107     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2003)131<0136:HRWFOC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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