The impact of assimilating surface pressure observations on severe weather events in a WRF mesoscale ensemble system

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1673-1694

  Wheatley, Dustan M ^a,b   Stensrud, David J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ensembles; Forecasting; Mesoscale systems; Severe storms; Surface pressure

Indexed keywords

ALTIMETER SETTINGS; COLD POOL; CROSS-COVARIANCE; ENSEMBLE FORECASTS; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; ENSEMBLE SYSTEMS; MEAN PRESSURES; MESO-SCALE SYSTEMS; MESOSCALE; MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; MESOSCALE FEATURES; PRESSURE PATTERNS; PRIMARY OBJECTIVE; RELATIVE IMPACT; SEVERE STORMS; SEVERE WEATHER EVENTS; SURFACE PRESSURES; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE PATTERNS; TOTAL PRESSURE; WEATHER RESEARCH; WIND ANALYSIS; WIND COMPONENTS;

ERRORS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; STORMS; WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ALTIMETER; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SEVERE WEATHER; STORM; SURFACE PRESSURE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 77955573220     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR3042.1     Document Type: Article

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