Relative short-range forecast impact from aircraft, profiler, radiosonde, VAD, GPS-PW, METAR, and mesonet observations via the RUC hourly assimilation cycle

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1319-1343

  Benjamin, Stanley G ^a   Jamison, Brian D ^a,b   Moninger, William R ^a   Sahm, Susan R ^a   Schwartz, Barry E ^a,c   Schlatter, Thomas W ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c Systems Research Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Aircraft observations; Data assimilation; Global positioning systems; Profilers; Radiosonde observations; Short range prediction

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT OBSERVATIONS; ATMOSPHERIC MOTION VECTORS; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SOURCE; DATA TYPE; GPS-DERIVED PRECIPITABLE WATER; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; OBSERVATION DATA; OBSERVING SYSTEMS; PRECIPITABLE WATER; RAPID UPDATE CYCLES; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; SURFACE OBSERVATION; VELOCITY-AZIMUTH DISPLAY;

AIRCRAFT; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERICS; DATA PROCESSING; EXPERIMENTS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; RADIOSONDES;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AIRBORNE SURVEY; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA ASSIMILATION; GPS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROFILER; RADIOSONDE; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; VECTOR; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND;

EID: 77955529419     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR3097.1     Document Type: Article

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