A Velocity dealiasing technique using rapidly updated analysis from a four-dimensional variational doppler radar data assimilation system

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1140-1152

  Lim, Eunha ^a   Sun, Juanzhen ^b  

^a National Typhoon Center   (South Korea)

^b National Center for Atmospheric Research   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Radar observations; Wind

Indexed keywords

ALIASED; DATA ASSIMILATION; DOPPLER VELOCITY; GRID POINTS; HORIZONTAL SHEAR; MESOSCALE MODEL; NEXT GENERATION WEATHER RADARS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS; RADAR DATA; RADAR DATA ASSIMILATION; RADAR OBSERVATIONS; VELOCITY DEALIASING; WIND FIELD;

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DOPPLER EFFECT; DOPPLER RADAR; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR; THUNDERSTORMS; VELOCITY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

DATA PROCESSING;

ALGORITHM; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; DOPPLER RADAR; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; NUMERICAL METHOD; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RADAR IMAGERY; THUNDERSTORM; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND FIELD;

EID: 77955565716     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JTECHA1300.1     Document Type: Article

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