Observing System Simulation Experiment: Development of the system and preliminary results

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 116, Issue 13, 2011, Pages

  Chen, Shu Hua ^a,b   Chen, Jhih Ying ^c   Chang, Wei Yu ^c   Lin, Pay Liam ^c   Lin, Po Hsiung ^d   Sun, Wen Yih ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b National Typhoon and Flood Research Institute ^*  (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; RADAR; RADAR STATIONS; RADIOSONDES; RAIN; WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SAMPLING; FIELD EXPERIMENT; MONSOON RAINFALL; OBSERVING SYSTEM SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; RADAR DATA; RADAR ECHOES; RADIAL VELOCITY; SHORT-TERM FORECASTS; SHORT-TERM RAINFALL FORECAST; SURFACE STATION; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS; WIND PROFILER;

EXPERIMENTS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; DATA ASSIMILATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIELD METHOD; FORECASTING METHOD; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; INSTRUMENTATION; ISLAND; MOISTURE CONTENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RAINFALL;

TAIWAN;

CITRUS MAXIMA;

EID: 79960093031     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD015103     Document Type: Article

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