Mesoscale assimilation of TMI rainfall data with 4DVAR: Sensitivity studies

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1389-1397

  Pu, Zhaoxia ^a,b,c   Tao, Wei Kuo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFALL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 11244262386     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.2004.1389     Document Type: Article

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