Revisiting the latent heat nudging scheme for the rainfall assimilation of a simulated convective storm

Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 98, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 195-215

  Leuenberger, D ^a   Rossa, A ^b  

^a FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

^b ARPA Veneto   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MODELING; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; STORM; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND FIELD;

EID: 34848818178     PISSN: 01777971     EISSN: 14365065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00703-007-0260-9     Document Type: Article

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