Physical initialization applied in WRF-Var for assimilation of Doppler radar data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 22, 2006, Pages

  Yang, Yi ^a   Qiu, C J ^a   Gong, Jiandong D ^b  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; DOPPLER RADAR; FORECASTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

FORECAST REFLECTIVITY FIELD; PHYSICAL INITIALIZATION (PI);

METEOROLOGY;

DATA ASSIMILATION; DOPPLER RADAR; FORECASTING METHOD; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HUBEI;

EID: 34548561613     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027656     Document Type: Article

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