Assimilation of Doppler radial winds into a 3D-Var system: Errors and impact of radial velocities on the variational analysis and model forecasts

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 134, Issue 636, 2008, Pages 1701-1716

  Rihan, Fathalla A ^a   Collier, Chris G ^a   Ballard, Susan P ^b   Swarbrick, Sean J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Doppler radial velocity; Observation; Operator; Super obbing

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER RADAR; ERRORS; FORECASTING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VALUE ENGINEERING; VELOCITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; DOPPLER RADIAL VELOCITY; OBSERVATION; OPERATOR; SUPER-OBBING;

RADAR;

DATA ASSIMILATION; DOPPLER RADAR; ERROR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 57349187266     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.326     Document Type: Article

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