Local adjustment of the background error correlation for surface analyses over complex terrain

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 149-160

  Myrick, David T ^a   Horel, John D ^a   Lazarus, Steven M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; INTERPOLATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; RADIATION; TEMPERATURE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS SYSTEMS; SURFACE OBSERVATIONS; WEATHER CONDITIONS;

CORRELATION METHODS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 18844382445     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF847.1     Document Type: Article

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