Simultaneous estimation of microphysical parameters and the atmospheric state using simulated polarimetric radar data and an ensemble Kalman filter in the presence of an observation operator error

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 539-562

  Jung, Youngsun ^a   Xue, Ming ^a   Zhang, Guifu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULK DENSITY; CORRECT ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL REFLECTIVITY; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; ESTIMATION PROBLEM; ESTIMATION PROCESS; FORECAST MODEL; HIGHLY NONLINEAR; HORIZONTAL POLARIZATION; INTERCEPT PARAMETERS; MICROPHYSICAL PARAMETERS; MODEL ERRORS; OBSERVATION OPERATOR; OBSERVING SYSTEM SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; PARAMETER AND STATE ESTIMATION; PARAMETER VALUES; POLARIMETRIC DATA; POLARIMETRIC MEASUREMENTS; POLARIMETRIC RADARS; RADAR REFLECTIVITIES; RADIAL VELOCITY; SIMULTANEOUS ESTIMATION; SPECIFIC DIFFERENTIAL PHASE; SQUARE ROOT KALMAN FILTER; STATE VARIABLES; THREE PARAMETERS; UNCERTAIN PARAMETERS;

ERRORS; EXPERIMENTS; KALMAN FILTERS; METAL ANALYSIS; POLARIMETERS; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; RADAR; REFLECTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SNOW; STATE ESTIMATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; KALMAN FILTER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 77953061918     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR2748.1     Document Type: Article

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