Diagnosis and formulation of heterogeneous background-error covariances at the mesoscale

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 136, Issue 651, 2010, Pages 1408-1420

  Montmerle, Thibaut ^a   Berre, Löik ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

AROME; B matrix; Precipitation

Indexed keywords

AROME; BACKGROUND-ERROR COVARIANCES; CONTROL VARIABLE; CORRELATION LENGTHS; DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; DIVERGENCE ERROR; ENSEMBLE-BASED METHOD; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; MATRIX; MESOSCALE; METEOROLOGICAL PATTERNS; PRECIPITATION; RADAR DATA; SYSTEM USE; VARIATIONAL FRAMEWORK;

DIAGNOSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA PROCESSING;

COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; MATRIX; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 77957141625     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.655     Document Type: Article

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