Sensitivity of high-resolution forecasts using the adjoint technique at the 10-km scale

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 134, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 772-790

  Soci, Cornel ^a   Fischer, Claude ^b   Horányi, András ^c  

^a NATIONAL METEOROLOGICAL ADMINISTRATION   (Romania)

^b CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^c HUNGARIAN METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; GRADIENT METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); WEATHER FORECASTING;

GRADIENT COMPUTATION; HIGH-RESOLUTION FORECAST; LINEARIZED PHYSICAL PARAMETERIZATION PACKAGE; NUMERICAL INSTABILITY; OROGRAPHY;

METEOROLOGY;

METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 33646242787     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3091.1     Document Type: Article

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