Time-expanded sampling for ensemble Kalman filter: Assimilation experiments with simulated radar observations

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2651-2667

  Xu, Qin ^a   Lu, Huijuan ^b,c   Gao, Shouting ^d   Xue, Ming ^b   Tong, Mingjing ^b  

^a NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL THEORY; EXPERIMENTS; FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTERS; RADAR; SAMPLING; VECTORS; WAVE FILTERS;

ANALYSIS TIME; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; PERTURBED STATE; RADAR OBSERVATIONS; SAMPLING TIME; STATE VECTORS; SUPERCELL STORMS;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTER; RADAR IMAGERY; STORM; SUPERCELL;

EID: 52149120489     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007MWR2185.1     Document Type: Article

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