Using precipitation observations in a mesoscale short-range ensemble analysis and forecasting system

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 357-372

  Fujita, Tadashi ^a,b   Stensrud, David J ^c   Dowell, David C ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; CONTROL THEORY; FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTERS; MIXING; RISK ASSESSMENT; WAVE FILTERS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONING; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE ANALYSIS; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; FORECASTING SYSTEMS; GRID SPACINGS; MESO-SCALE; PHYSICAL PROCESSES; PRECIPITATION DATA; PRECIPITATION PROBABILITIES; SIMPLE METHODS; SURFACE DATA; SURFACE OBSERVATIONS; WATER VAPOR MIXING RATIO;

WATER VAPOR;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BOUNDARY CONDITION; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTER; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MIXING RATIO; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; WATER VAPOR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 48649102828     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007WAF2006108.1     Document Type: Article

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