Heterogeneous background-error covariances for the analysis and forecast of fog events

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 137, Issue 661, 2011, Pages 2004-2013

  Ménétrier, Benjamin ^a   Montmerle, Thibaut ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

Cloud resolving model; Flow dependency; Variational data assimilation

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS SYSTEM; ASSIMILATION SYSTEM; BACKGROUND-ERROR COVARIANCES; CLOUD RESOLVING MODEL; CONTROL VARIABLE; FLOW DEPENDENCY; FOG AND HAZE; FOG EVENTS; GLOBAL IMPACTS; IMPACT STUDY; LOW LEVEL; PHYSICAL PROCESS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; VERTICAL CORRELATION;

DATA PROCESSING; MAPS;

FOG;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; FOG; FORECASTING METHOD; MODELING;

EID: 80053192584     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.802     Document Type: Article

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