Wind and Tempeture retrievals in the 17 May 1981 Arcadia, Oklahoma, supercell: Ensemble Kalman filter experiments

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 132, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1982-2005

  Dowell, David C ^a   Zhang, Fuqing ^b   Wicker, Louis J ^c   Snyder, Chris ^a   Crook, N Andrew ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SUPERCELLS; TEMPERATURE RETRIEVALS;

ERROR ANALYSIS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; KALMAN FILTERING; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; DATA ASSIMILATION; KALMAN FILTER; SUPERCELL; TEMPERATURE; WIND MEASUREMENT;

NORTH AMERICA; OKLAHOMA [OKLAHOMA (STT)]; OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 4444315259     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2004)132<1982:WATRIT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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