Assimilation of surface-based boundary layer profiler observations during a cool-season weather event using an observing system simulation experiment. Part I: Analysis impact

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 139, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2309-2326

  Otkin, Jason A ^a   Hartung, Daniel C ^a   Turner, David D ^b,c   Petersen, Ralph A ^a   Feltz, Wayne F ^a   Janzon, Erik ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary layer; Data assimilation; Kalman filters; Profilers; Remote sensing; Winter cool season

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS ACCURACY; ATMOSPHERIC ANALYSIS; ATMOSPHERIC EMITTED RADIANCE INTERFEROMETERS; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; DOPPLER WIND LIDAR; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; EXTRATROPICAL; GROUND-BASED REMOTE SENSING; HIGH QUALITY; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; MOISTURE PROFILES; OBSERVING SYSTEM SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; PROFILERS; PROFILING INSTRUMENT; PROFILING SYSTEMS; RAMAN LIDAR; REMOTE SENSING SYSTEM; SURFACE-BASED; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER EVENTS; WEATHER SYSTEMS; WIND PROFILES; WINTER/COOL SEASON;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERICS; DATA PROCESSING; EXPERIMENTS; KALMAN FILTERS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MOISTURE; OPTICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER;

AIR TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; DOPPLER RADAR; KALMAN FILTER; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; MOISTURE; REMOTE SENSING; WATER VAPOR; WIND PROFILE;

EID: 80052408257     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011MWR3622.1     Document Type: Article

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