Using operationally synthesized multiple-Doppler winds for high resolution horizontal wind forecast verification

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Bousquet, Olivier ^a   Montmerle, Thibaut ^a   Tabary, Pierre ^b  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^b DSO   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; DOPPLER RADAR; ELECTRIC LOAD FORECASTING; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND;

AND MODELS; ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; DOPPLER; DOPPLER WINDS; FRONTAL PRECIPITATIONS; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; HORIZONTAL WINDS; POTENTIAL VALUES; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISONS; RADAR NETWORKS; RADIAL VELOCITIES; WIND FORECASTS; WIND RETRIEVALS; WIND SPEEDS;

RADAR;

CLOUD; DATA ASSIMILATION; DOPPLER RADAR; FORECASTING METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; WIND VELOCITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 58049133401     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL033975     Document Type: Article

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