Assimilation of simulated polarimetric radar data for a convective storm using the ensemble Kalman filter. Part II: Impact of polarimetric data on storm analysis

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2246-2260

  Jung, Youngsun ^a   Xue, Ming ^a   Zhang, Guifu ^a   Straka, Jerry M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL THEORY; KALMAN FILTERS; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; RADAR; WAVE FILTERS;

CONVECTIVE STORMS; DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; DIFFERENTIAL REFLECTIVITY; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; OBSERVING SYSTEM SIMULATION EXPERIMENT; POLARIMETRIC DATA; POLARIMETRIC OBSERVATIONS; POLARIMETRIC RADARS; POLARIMETRIC VARIABLES; SQUARE ROOTING; STORM ANALYSIS;

POLARIMETERS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; DATA ASSIMILATION; DROPLET; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; KALMAN FILTER; POLARIZATION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; THRESHOLD; VORTICITY; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 44949158026     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007MWR2288.1     Document Type: Article

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