An examination of WRF 3DVAR radar data assimilation on its capability in retrieving unobserved variables and forecasting precipitation through observing system simulation experiments

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 4011-4029

  Sugimoto, Soichiro ^a   Andrew Crook, N ^b   Sun, Juanzhen ^b   Xiao, Qingnong ^b   Barker, Dale M ^b,c  

^a CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD ANALYSIS; DOPPLER; INITIAL CONDITIONS; MESOSCALE; OBSERVING SYSTEM SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; POTENTIAL BENEFITS; PRECIPITATION FORECASTING; QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION FORECAST; RADAR DATA ASSIMILATION; RADAR OBSERVATIONS; RADIAL VELOCITY; SIMULATED DATA; SOUTHERN GREAT PLAINS; TANGENTIAL WIND; VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS; WEATHER SURVEILLANCE RADAR-1988 DOPPLER; WIND RETRIEVALS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; EXPERIMENTS; RADAR; REFLECTION; SURVEILLANCE RADAR;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLOUD; DATA ASSIMILATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADAR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

GREAT PLAINS;

EID: 77649326976     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR2839.1     Document Type: Article

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