Estimates of turbulence from numerical weather prediction model output with applications to turbulence diagnosis data assimilation

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 132, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2308-2324

  Frehlich, Rod ^a   Sharman, Robert ^b  

^a CIRES ^*  (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STATISTICAL METHODS; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC VARIABLES; NUMERICAL MODELS; SAMPLING ERRORS; WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS;

TURBULENCE;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; TURBULENCE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 7744229293     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2004)132<2308:EOTFNW>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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