An application of a weakly constrained 4DVAR to satellite data assimilation and heavy rainfall simulation

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 131, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 2151-2176

  Lee, Mi Seon ^a   Lee, Dong Kyou ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; SATELLITES; TROPOSPHERE;

RAINFALL PREDICTION;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLOUD WATER; DATA ASSIMILATION; RAINFALL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SIMULATION; TOVS;

EID: 0141940644     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2003)131<2151:AAOAWC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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