An ensemble-based four-dimensional variational data assimilation scheme. Part II: Observing system simulation experiments with advanced research WRF (ARW)

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1687-1704

  Liu, Chengsi ^a,b   Xiao, Qingnong ^b   Wang, Bin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b MMM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJOINTS; ADVANCED RESEARCHES; ANALYSIS TIME; CONTROL EXPERIMENTS; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; DIMENSION DATA; FORECAST ERRORS; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; INCREMENTAL APPROACH; LOCALIZATION TECHNIQUE; OBSERVING SYSTEM SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL; SAMPLING ERRORS; SEQUENTIAL ALGORITHM; SHALLOW-WATER MODELS; TANGENT LINEAR MODELS; VARIATIONAL ALGORITHMS; VARIATIONAL ASSIMILATION; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING;

ALGORITHMS; DATA PROCESSING; DESIGN; ERRORS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; SEQUENTIAL SWITCHING; SIMULATORS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EXPERIMENTS;

ALGORITHM; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 68249159696     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2699.1     Document Type: Article

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