Application of a WRF mesoscale data assimilation system to springtime severe weather events 2007-09

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 140, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1539-1557

  Wheatley, Dustan M ^a   Stensrud, David J ^b   Dowell, David C ^c   Yussouf, Nusrat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^c EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Ensembles

Indexed keywords

COLD POOL; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; DRYLINES; ENSEMBLE DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTS; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; ENSEMBLES; GRID POINTS; IMPROVED FORECAST; MESOSCALE; MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; MESOSCALE FEATURES; ROOT-MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SEVERE WEATHER; SEVERE WEATHER EVENTS; SHORT PERIODS; SURFACE OBSERVATION; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

PROBABILITY; STORMS; TORNADOES; WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; KALMAN FILTER; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; RAINFALL; SEVERE WEATHER; SPRING (SEASON); TORNADO; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84864943518     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-11-00106.1     Document Type: Article

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