A 4D-Var study on the potential of weather control and exigent weather forecasting

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 131, Issue 612, 2005, Pages 3037-3051

  Henderson, John M ^a   Hoffman, Ross N ^a   Leidner, S Mark ^a   Nehrkorn, Thomas ^a   Grassotti, Christopher ^a  

^a ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Hurricane Andrew

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CALCULATIONS; DATA REDUCTION; HURRICANES; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER MODIFICATION; WIND;

TEMPERATURE INCREMENTS; VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; WEATHER EVENTS;

METEOROLOGY;

DATA ASSIMILATION; HURRICANE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 31944441777     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.05.72     Document Type: Article

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