Trade-offs between measurement accuracy and resolutions in configuring phased-array radar velocity scans for ensemble-based storm-scale data assimilation

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1230-1244

  Lu, Huijuan ^a,b   Xu, Qin ^c  

^a STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE SQUARE ROOT FILTER; ERROR VARIANCE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MODEL PREDICTION; OBSERVATION ERRORS; OPTIMAL BALANCE; PHASED ARRAY RADARS; RADIAL DIRECTION; RADIAL-VELOCITY OBSERVATIONS; SPACE AND TIME; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; WIND ANALYSIS;

POTENTIAL FLOW; RADAR; STORMS;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLIMATE PREDICTION; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; MEASUREMENT METHOD; RADAR; STORM; TRADE-OFF; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 67651240349     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JAMC2009.1     Document Type: Article

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