Evaluation of surface analyses and forecasts with a multiscale ensemble Kalman filter in regions of complex terrain

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 139, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2008-2024

  Ancell, Brian C ^a,b   Mass, Clifford F ^a   Hakim, Gregory J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex terrain; Data assimilation; Kalman filters; Model evaluation performance; Numerical weather prediction forecasting; Surface observations

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX TERRAINS; DATA ASSIMILATION; MODEL EVALUATION/PERFORMANCE; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; SURFACE OBSERVATIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; EXPERIMENTS; KALMAN FILTERS; LANDFORMS; SURFACE ANALYSIS; SURFACE TESTING;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; COMPLEX TERRAIN; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; FLOW FIELD; KALMAN FILTER; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND DIRECTION;

PACIFIC NORTHWEST;

EID: 79959586070     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3612.1     Document Type: Article

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