Assimilation of conventional and satellite wind observations in a mesoscale atmospheric model for studying atmospheric dispersion

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 44, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 2846-2864

  Srinivas, C V ^a   Venkatesan, R ^a   Yesubabu, V ^a   Nagaraju, C ^a   Somayajai, K M ^a   Chellapandi, P ^a   Raj, Baldev ^a  

^a INDIRA GANDHI CENTRE FOR ATOMIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Assimilation; AWS; FDDA; Mesoscale; QuickSCAT; Radiological dispersion

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; ATMOSPHERIC FIELDS; ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; AUTOMATED WEATHER STATIONS; DISPERSION MODELS; DISPERSION SIMULATIONS; DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS; FIRST-ORDER CLOSURE; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; LAGRANGIAN PARTICLE MODEL; MESOSCALE; METEOROLOGICAL MODELS; MM5 MODELS; NUCLEAR EMERGENCY RESPONSE; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PARAMETERIZATIONS; QUICKSCAT; RADIOLOGICAL DISPERSION; SATELLITE WINDS; SCATTEROMETERS; SENSITIVITY TESTS; SIMULATED WIND FIELD; SOIL MODEL; SOUTHEAST COAST OF INDIA; SURFACE WINDS; WEATHER FORECASTS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA PROCESSING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; DISPERSIONS; EXPERIMENTS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; RADIOLOGY; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; DISPERSION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; QUIKSCAT; SATELLITE DATA; SCATTEROMETER; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND VELOCITY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AIRFLOW; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; DATA ANALYSIS; FORECASTING; HUMIDITY; MODEL; OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TELECOMMUNICATION; TIME; WIND; WIND DIRECTION; WIND SPEED;

INDIA;

EID: 77953959648     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2010.04.051     Document Type: Article

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