Four-dimensional variational data assimilation for WRF: Formulation and preliminary results

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 299-314

  Huang, Xiang Yu ^a   Xiao, Qingnong ^a   Barker, Dale M ^a   Zhang, Xin ^a   Michalakes, John ^a   Huang, Wei ^a   Henderson, Tom ^a   Bray, John ^a   Chen, Yongshen ^a   Ma, Zaizhong ^a   Dudhia, Jimy ^a   Guo, Yongrun ^a   Zhang, Xiaoyan ^a   Won, Duk Jin ^a   Lin, Hui Chuan ^a   Kuo, Ying Hwa ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND-ERROR COVARIANCES; DYNAMIC BALANCES; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATIONS; MODEL CONFIGURATIONS; MODEL STATE; MULTI-SCALE; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; WEATHER CONDITIONS; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS; WRF MODELS;

VALUE ENGINEERING;

COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; NUMERICAL METHOD; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 64149103612     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2577.1     Document Type: Article

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