Verification of operational analyses using an extremely high-density surface station network

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 572-578

  Kann, Alexander ^a   Haiden, Thomas ^a   von der Emde, Klaus ^a   Gruber, Christine ^a   Kabas, Thomas ^b   Leuprecht, Armin ^b   Kirchengast, Gottfried ^b  

^a ZAMG Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Automatic weather stations; Complex terrain; In situ observations; Numerical analysis modeling; Numerical weather prediction forecasting

Indexed keywords

ALPINE REGIONS; ANALYSIS SKILLS; AUSTRIA; AUTOMATIC WEATHER STATIONS; AVERAGE DISTANCE; COMPLEX TERRAINS; COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS; GRID-TYPE; HIGH RESOLUTION ANALYSIS; HIGH-DENSITY; IN SITU OBSERVATIONS; NOWCASTING; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; OBSERVATION DATA; OPERATIONAL ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY STUDIES; STATION NETWORK; SURFACE STATION; WIND SPEED;

LANDFORMS;

WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

AIR TEMPERATURE; COMPLEX TERRAIN; NOWCASTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; TOPOGRAPHY; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER STATION; WIND VELOCITY;

AUSTRIA;

EID: 80052417474     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-11-00031.1     Document Type: Article

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