For how long should what data be assimilated for the mesoscale forecasting of convection and why? Part I: On the propagation of initial condition errors and their implications for data assimilation

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 242-255

  Fabry, Frédéric ^a   Sun, Juanzhen ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSIMILATION SYSTEM; CONVECTIVE EVENTS; CONVECTIVE STORMS; DATA ASSIMILATION; INCOMPLETE DATA; INITIAL CONDITIONS; MESOSCALE; MODEL CONSTRAINTS; TIME INTERVAL; TIME WINDOWS; WEATHER FORECASTING MODEL;

DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; DATA PROCESSING; ERRORS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVECTION; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; STORM; WEATHER FORECASTING;

GREAT PLAINS;

EID: 77953215939     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR2883.1     Document Type: Article

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