A cloud-resolving 4DVAR assimilation experiment for a local heavy rainfall event in the Tokyo metropolitan area

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 139, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1911-1931

  Kawabata, Takuya ^a   Kuroda, Tohru ^a   Seko, Hiromu ^a   Saito, Kazuo ^a  

^a JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cloud resolving models; Data assimilation; Radars radar observations; Rainfall; Surface observations

Indexed keywords

ADJOINT MODELS; CLOUD RESOLVING MODEL; CLOUD-RESOLVING; CONTROL VARIABLE; CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS; DATA ASSIMILATION; DEEP CONVECTION; DOPPLER RADIAL WIND; ELEVATION ANGLE; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; HEAVY RAINFALL; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; METROPOLITAN AREA; OBSERVATION OPERATOR; PRECIPITABLE WATER VAPOR; PSEUDO-OBSERVATIONS; RADAR REFLECTIVITIES; SURFACE OBSERVATIONS; TOKYO , JAPAN; TOKYO METROPOLITAN AREAS; WIND PROFILER DATA;

DATA PROCESSING; EXPERIMENTS; RADAR; REFLECTION; WATER VAPOR;

RAIN;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CONVECTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; DOPPLER RADAR; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; GPS; METROPOLITAN AREA; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PROFILER; RAINFALL; RAINWATER; WEATHER FORECASTING;

HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; TOKYO [KANTO];

EID: 79959589979     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011MWR3428.1     Document Type: Article

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