Monitoring the 2008 cold surge and frozen disasters snowstorm in South China based on regional ATOVS data assimilation

Science China Earth Sciences

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1216-1228

  Lu, Qi Feng ^a   Zhang, Wen Jiang ^b,c   Zhang, Peng ^a   Wu, Xue Bao ^a   Zhang, Feng Ying ^a   Liu, Zhi Quan ^a,d   Dale, M Barker ^d  

^a NATIONAL SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^c SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

2008 cold surge and frozen disaster in South China; ATOVS data assimilation; snow depth; snowstorm monitoring

Indexed keywords

2008 COLD SURGE AND FROZEN DISASTER IN SOUTH CHINA; COLD SURGE; DATA ASSIMILATION; SNOW DEPTHS; SOUTH CHINA;

CLIMATOLOGY; DATA PROCESSING; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; SNOW; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; STORMS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

MONITORING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; MONITORING SYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; SNOW COVER; SNOWSTORM; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STORM SURGE;

CHINA;

EID: 77955306462     PISSN: 16747313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-010-3040-1     Document Type: Article

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