Radar data assimilation for the simulation of mesoscale convective systems

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1025-1042

  Lee, Jo Han ^a   Lee, Hyun Ha ^a   Choi, Yong Han ^a   Kim, Hyung Woo ^a   Lee, Dong Kyou ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

3DVAR cycling; heavy rainfall; initialization; radar data; tuning; WRF 3DVAR

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955791580     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-010-9162-8     Document Type: Article

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