Sensitivity of 0-12-h warm-season precipitation forecasts over the central United States to model initialization

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 832-855

  Sun, Juanzhen ^a   Trier, Stanley B ^a   Xiao, Qingnong ^a,b   Weisman, Morris L ^a   Wang, Hongli ^a   Ying, Zhuming ^a   Xu, Mei ^a   Zhang, Ying ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Model evaluation performance; Nowcasting; Numerical weather prediction forecasting; Short range prediction

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED RESEARCHES; COLD POOL; DATA ASSIMILATION; INITIAL CONDITIONS; LARGE-SCALE MODELS; MIDLATITUDES; MODEL EVALUATION; MODEL INITIALIZATION; NOWCASTING; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; PRECIPITATION FORECAST; PRECIPITATION PATTERNS; PRECIPITATION VERIFICATION; RADAR DATA; RADAR DATA ASSIMILATION; RADAR OBSERVATIONS; SHORTWAVE TROUGHS; SPIN-UP; SURFACE-BASED; VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; WARM-SEASON PRECIPITATION FORECASTS; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

DATA PROCESSING; DIGITAL STORAGE; RESEARCH; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; NOWCASTING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PREDICTION; RADAR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84868312925     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: 15200434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-11-00075.1     Document Type: Article

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