Introduction of data assimilation procedures in the meteorological pre-processor of atmospheric dispersion models used in emergency response systems

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 457-467

  Kovalets, Ivan ^a   Andronopoulos, Spyros ^b   Bartzis, John G ^c   Gounaris, Nikos ^b   Kushchan, Anatoliy ^a  

^a Institute of Mathematical Machines and Systems Nasu   (Ukraine)

^b INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY AND RADIATION PROTECTION   (Greece)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

ETEX; Iterations to optimal solution; Optimal interpolation; RODOS

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANEMOMETERS; INTERPOLATION; METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADIATION;

WEATHER STATIONS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

METHANEARSONATE DISODIUM;

DATA ASSIMILATION; DISPERSION; METEOROLOGY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ALGORITHM; ANEMOMETER; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; CLOUD; MEASUREMENT; METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS; WEATHER;

EID: 0344514866     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2003.09.068     Document Type: Article

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