Assimilation of reflectivity data in a convective-scale, cycled 3DVAR framework with hydrometeor classification

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1054-1065

  Gao, Jidong ^a   Stensrud, David J ^a  

^a NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND TEMPERATURE; DATA ASSIMILATION; HYDROMETEOR CLASSIFICATION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; RADAR REFLECTIVITIES; RADIAL VELOCITY; REFLECTIVITY DATA; SPIN-UP; SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL VARIATIONAL ASSIMILATION (3DVAR) SYSTEMS;

CLOUDS; DATA PROCESSING; EXPERIMENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR; REFLECTION; TEMPERATURE; THUNDERSTORMS; VELOCITY;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84858253081     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-11-0162.1     Document Type: Article

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