Improving convective precipitation forecasting through assimilation of regional lightning measurements in a mesoscale model

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 133, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1961-1977

  Papadopoulos, Anastasios ^a   Chronis, Themis G ^b   Anagnostou, Emmanouil N ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; LIGHTNING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CONVECTIVE PRECIPITATION; EMPIRICAL HUMIDITY PROFILES; LIGHTNING DENSITY; REGIONAL LIGHTNING MEASUREMENTS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 24144433441     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR2957.1     Document Type: Article

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