Application of the multigrid method to the two-dimensional Doppler radar radial velocity data assimilation

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 319-332

  Li, Wei ^a,b   Xie, Yuanfu ^c   Deng, Shiow Ming ^d   Wang, Qi ^b  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b Yunnan Institute of Geological Environment Monitoring   (China)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d CENTRAL WEATHER BUREAU   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; EARTH SYSTEMS; IN-SITU; MESOSCALE ANALYSIS; MULTIGRID METHODS; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION; RADIAL VELOCITY; RADIAL WINDS; SPACE AND TIME; TANGENTIAL WIND; VARIATIONAL APPROACHES; VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION;

DATA PROCESSING; DOPPLER EFFECT; DOPPLER RADAR; EARTH (PLANET); EXPERIMENTS; RESEARCH LABORATORIES; VELOCITY;

RADAR;

ADJOINT METHOD; DATA ASSIMILATION; DOPPLER RADAR; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; METEOROLOGY; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 77952479969     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JTECHA1271.1     Document Type: Article

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