Comparison between dual-doppler and enkf storm-scale wind analyses: Observing system simulation experiments with a supercell thunderstorm

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 140, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3972-3991

  Potvin, Corey K ^a   Wicker, Louis J ^a  

^a NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Ensembles; Radars Radar observations; Supercells; Variational analysis

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; DYNAMICAL ANALYSIS; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; ENSEMBLES; FLOW EVOLUTION; GRID-SPACINGS; KINEMATICAL ANALYSIS; LAGRANGIAN; MICROPHYSICAL PARAMETERIZATION; MOBILE RADARS; MODEL ERRORS; OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS; OBSERVING SYSTEM SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; RADAR CHARACTERISTICS; RADAR OBSERVATIONS; RETRIEVAL TECHNIQUES; STORM STRUCTURE; SUPER CELL; SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS; VARIATIONAL ANALYSIS; WIND ANALYSIS; WIND ERRORS; WIND RETRIEVALS;

DATA PROCESSING; ERRORS; EXPERIMENTS; RADAR; THUNDERSTORMS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DATA ASSIMILATION; DOPPLER RADAR; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; STORM; SUPERCELL; THUNDERSTORM; VORTICITY; WIND;

EID: 84871851508     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00044.1     Document Type: Article

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