Interpreting an evaluation of the ECMWF global model with CloudSat observations: Ambiguities due to radar reflectivity forward operator uncertainties

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 138, Issue 669, 2012, Pages 2047-2065

  Di Michele, Sabatino ^a   Ahlgrimm, Maike ^a   Forbes, Richard ^a   Kulie, Mark ^b   Bennartz, Ralf ^b   Janisková, Marta ^a   Bauer, Peter ^a  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

CloudSat; Model evaluation; Radar forward operator

Indexed keywords

CLOUDSAT; DATA ASSIMILATION; GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC MODELS; GLOBAL MODELS; MODEL EVALUATION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; PRECIPITATION FREQUENCY; RADAR DATA; RADAR REFLECTIVITIES; SCATTERING PROPERTY; SENSITIVITY STUDIES; SENSITIVITY TESTS; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE STORM TRACKS; SUB-GRIDS;

CLOUDS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); REFLECTION;

RADAR;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLOUDSAT; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICLE SIZE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SATELLITE DATA; SCATTERING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84871629446     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.1936     Document Type: Article

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