Efficient moist physics schemes for data assimilation. II: Deep convection

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 135, Issue 640, 2009, Pages 721-738

  Stiller, O ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

4D Var; CAPE closure; Perturbation forecast; Precipitation; Subsidence

Indexed keywords

4D-VAR; CAPE CLOSURE; CONVECTIVE AVAILABLE POTENTIAL ENERGIES; DATA ASSIMILATION; DEEP CONVECTION; ERROR MITIGATION; INPUT FILES; LINEAR MODEL; NON-LINEAR MASS; NON-LINEAR MODEL; NONLINEAR PARAMETRIZATION; NUMERICAL EFFICIENCY; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; PERTURBATION FORECAST; PRE-PROCESSING; PRECIPITATION; STATISTICAL INTERPRETATION; TEST RESULTS; TIME AVERAGING; TIME INTERVAL;

FORECASTING; SUBSIDENCE; VALUE ENGINEERING;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; FORECASTING METHOD; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 69549090536     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.362     Document Type: Article

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