Data assimilation of high-density observations. II: Impact on the forecast of the precipitation for the MAP/SOP IOP2b

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 131, Issue 605, 2005, Pages 43-61

  Ferretti, Rossella ^a,b   Faccani, Claudia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b CETEMPS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Mesoscale modelling; Model error; Rainfall forecast

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH; OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFALL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 23044477184     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.03.56B     Document Type: Article

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