Impacts of beam broadening and earth curvature on storm-scale 3d variational data assimilation of radial velocity with two doppler radars

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 617-636

  Ge, Guoqing ^a   Gao, Jidong ^a   Brewster, Keith ^a   Xue, Ming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; MODEL VARIABLES; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; OBSERVATION OPERATOR; PHYSICAL LOCATIONS; RADAR DATA; RADAR DATA ASSIMILATION; RADIAL VELOCITY; RAY PATHS; REFRACTIVE INDEX GRADIENTS; STATE VARIABLES; SYSTEM SIMULATIONS; SYSTEMATIC EVALUATION; TIME LEVEL; TORNADIC THUNDERSTORMS; VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; WIND ANALYSIS; WIND FIELD;

DATA PROCESSING; DOPPLER RADAR; ERRORS; EXPERIMENTS; LIGHT REFRACTION; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; RADAR; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS; THUNDERSTORMS; TIME SERIES;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

DATA ASSIMILATION; DOPPLER RADAR; NUMERICAL MODEL; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 77953514531     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JTECHA1359.1     Document Type: Article

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