The impact on weather forecasts of targeted observations during A-TReC

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 133, Issue 623, 2007, Pages 417-431

  Petersen, G N ^a,b   Thorpe, A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive observations; ETKF; Sensitive areas; THORPEX

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; DATA REDUCTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; METEOROLOGY;

ADAPTIVE OBSERVATIONS; SENSITIVE-AREA PREDICTION TECHNIQUES;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA ASSIMILATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34247281980     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.31     Document Type: Article

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