Radar data assimilation of the GRAPES model and experimental results in a typhoon case

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 344-358

  Liu, Hongya ^a   Xue, Jishan ^b   Gu, Jianfeng ^c   Xu, Haiming ^d  

^a Shanghai Meteorological Center   (China)

^b STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

^c Chongqing Meteorological Bureau   (China)

^d NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

3DVAR mesoscale data assimilation; Richardson's equation; vertical velocity retrieval

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863174954     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-011-1063-y     Document Type: Article

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