An OSSE framework based on the ensemble square root Kalman filter for evaluating the impact of data from radar networks on thunderstorm analysis and forecasting

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 46-66

  Xue, Ming ^a   Tong, Mingjing ^a   Droegemeier, Kelvin K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER RADAR; KALMAN FILTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THUNDERSTORMS;

ENSEMBLE SQUARE ROOT KALMAN FILTER; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODEL;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER RADAR; KALMAN FILTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THUNDERSTORMS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTER; THUNDERSTORM;

EID: 33644779514     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH1835.1     Document Type: Article

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