Adaptive mesh method in the Met Office variational data assimilation system

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 137, Issue 656, 2011, Pages 631-640

  Piccolo, Chiara ^a   Cullen, Mike ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Background error correlations; Temperature inversion

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MESH METHOD; ASSIMILATION PROCEDURE; BACKGROUND-ERROR COVARIANCES; CASE-STUDIES; ERROR CORRELATION; ERROR VARIANCE; FORECAST ERRORS; ICY ROAD; INCREASED TEMPERATURE; LAYER STRUCTURES; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SURFACE OBSERVATION; TEMPERATURE FORECASTS; TEMPERATURE INVERSION; TEMPERATURE INVERSIONS; VARIATIONAL ASSIMILATION; VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM; VERTICAL CORRELATION;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDS; DATA PROCESSING; ERRORS; RADIOSONDES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; FOG; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PREDICTION; RADIOSONDE; STRATOCUMULUS; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 79955468468     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.801     Document Type: Article

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