Impact of a digital filter as a weak constraint in MM5 4DVAR: An observing system simulation experiment

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 543-559

  Wee, Tae Kwon ^a   Kuo, Ying Hwa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DIGITAL FILTERS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; PROBLEM SOLVING;

HIGH FREQUENCY OSCILLATIONS; VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CYCLOGENESIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; GPS; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 1542540834     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2004)132<0543:IOADFA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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