A hybrid ETKF-3DVAR data assimilation scheme for the WRF model. Part I: Observation system simulation experiment

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 5116-5131

  Wang, Xuguang ^a,b   Barker, Dale M ^c   Snyder, Chris ^c   Hamill, Thomas M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE ANALYSIS; COARSE GRIDS; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; CONTROL VARIABLES; COVARIANCE MODELS; DATA ASSIMILATION METHODS; DATA ASSIMILATIONS; DENSE REGIONS; ENSEMBLE PERTURBATIONS; FORECAST ERRORS; HORIZONTAL DISTRIBUTIONS; HYBRID ANALYSIS; OBSERVATION SYSTEMS; OBSERVING SYSTEM SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS; PERFECT MODELS; PILOT STUDIES; RADIOSONDE WINDS; ROOT MEAN SQUARES; SECOND ORDERS; TEMPERATURE OBSERVATIONS; VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATIONS; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS; WRF MODELS;

CHANNEL FLOW; CONTROL THEORY; EXPERIMENTS; FORECASTING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ERROR STATISTICS;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ESTIMATION METHOD; KALMAN FILTER; RADIOSONDE; SIMULATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 62749149846     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2444.1     Document Type: Article

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