Issues in high resolution limited area data assimilation for quantitative precipitation forecasting

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 196, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 1-27

  Dance, S L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Convective scale numerical weather prediction; Data assimilation; Optimal estimation; Quantitative precipitation forecasting

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COSTS; DATA ACQUISITION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CONVECTIVE SCALE NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; OPTIMAL ESTIMATION; QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION FORECASTING;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 3242891380     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physd.2004.05.001     Document Type: Review

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