Impact of phased-array radar observations over a short assimilation period: Observing system simulation experiments using an ensemble Kalman filter

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 517-538

  Yussouf, Nusrat ^a,b   Stensrud, David J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE ANALYSIS; ADAPTIVE SCANNING; DATA ASSIMILATION TECHNIQUES; ENSEMBLE FORECASTS; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; LEADTIME; NUMERICAL MODELS; OBSERVING SYSTEM SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; PHASED ARRAY RADARS; RADAR LOCATIONS; RADIAL-VELOCITY OBSERVATIONS; SCALE ANALYSIS; SCALE MODELS; SCANNING RATE; SUPERCELL STORMS; VOLUME-AVERAGING; WEATHER PHENOMENA; WEATHER SURVEILLANCE RADAR-1988 DOPPLER; YIELD IMPROVEMENT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; KALMAN FILTERS; NUMERICAL METHODS; RADAR; SCANNING; STATISTICS; SURVEILLANCE RADAR; THUNDERSTORMS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EXPERIMENTS;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTER; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RADAR; SIMULATION; STORM TRACK; SUPERCELL; THUNDERSTORM; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 77953185686     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR2925.1     Document Type: Article

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