Diagnosing summertime mesoscale vertical motion: Implications for atmospheric data assimilation

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 135, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2076-2094

  Pagé, Christian ^a   Fillion, Luc ^b   Zwack, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DATA ASSIMILATION; FORECAST MODEL; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION (NWP); VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; SUMMER; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; VERTICAL MOVEMENT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 34447295886     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3371.1     Document Type: Article

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