A cloud scheme for data assimilation: Description and initial tests

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 130, Issue 602 PART A, 2004, Pages 2495-2517

  Tompkins, A M ^a   Janiskova M ^a  

^a European Centre for Meadium Range Weather Forecasts   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

4D Var assimilation; Cloud and radiation observations; Linearized physics

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CLIMATOLOGY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CLOUD FRACTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; MIDLATITUDES;

CLOUDS;

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; DATA ASSIMILATION;

EID: 8344232345     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.03.162     Document Type: Article

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