Assimilation of radar and satellite data in mesoscale models: A physical initialization scheme

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 887-902

  Milan, Marco ^a   Venema, Victor ^a   Schüttemeyer, Dirk ^a   Simmer, Clemens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CLOUD TOP HEIGHTS; CLOUD WATER; DISTINCTIVE FEATURES; HIGH-RESOLUTION NWP; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; INITIAL STATE; MESOSCALE MODEL; MODEL STATE; MODEL VARIABLES; NOWCASTING; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; NWP MODEL; PRECIPITATION DATA; PRECIPITATION PATTERNS; PRECIPITATION PRODUCTS; REAL MEASUREMENTS; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SPIN-UP; TWIN EXPERIMENTS; VERTICAL WIND;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODELS; RADAR; SPIN DYNAMICS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WINDOWS;

HYDRAULIC MODELS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; DATA ASSIMILATION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NOWCASTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; RADAR; SATELLITE DATA; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 63449123759     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2008/0340     Document Type: Article

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