The relative impact of meteorological observations in the Norwegian regional model as determined using an energy norm-based approach

Atmospheric Science Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 51-58

  Storto, Andrea ^a   Randriamampianina, Roger ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

3DVAR; Forecast sensitivity; LAM; Satellite observations

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING METHOD; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

NORWAY;

EID: 77954448952     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1530261X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asl.257     Document Type: Article

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