Impact from a volumetric radar-sampling operator for radial velocity observations within EnKF supercell assimilation

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1417-1427

  Thompson, Therese E ^a   Wicker, Louis J ^b   Wang, Xuguang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud resolving models; Convective storms; Data assimilation; Ensembles; Radars Radar observations; Supercells

Indexed keywords

CLOUD RESOLVING MODEL; CONVECTIVE STORMS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLES; SUPER CELL;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; OCEAN ENGINEERING;

RADAR;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLIMATE MODELING; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTER; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RADAR; SAMPLING; SUPERCELL;

EID: 84871904638     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: 15200426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-12-00088.1     Document Type: Article

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