The contamination of 'data impact' in global models by rapidly growing mesoscale instabilities

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 133, Issue 628, 2007, Pages 1865-1875

  Hodyss, Daniel ^a   Majumdar, Shayanya J ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Mesoscale predictability; Signal propagation; THORPEX

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DATA PROCESSING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STORMS;

DATA ASSIMILATION; SIGNAL PROPAGATION; STORM TRACK;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MODELING; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; STORM TRACK; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 36749015116     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.157     Document Type: Article

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