Optimization of the assimilation of radar data at the convective scale using specific background error covariances in precipitation

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 140, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3495-3506

  Montmerle, Thibaut ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

Cloud resolving models; Convective clouds; Operational forecasting; Precipitation; Radars Radar observations; Variational analysis

Indexed keywords

ASSIMILATION SYSTEM; BACKGROUND-ERROR COVARIANCES; CLOUD RESOLVING MODEL; CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; DATA DENSITY; DYNAMICAL VARIABLES; ERROR COVARIANCES; ERROR VARIANCE; FORECAST ERRORS; MESOSCALE; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; OPERATIONAL FORECASTING; RADAR DATA; RADIAL VELOCITY; RADIAL WINDS; SPIN-UP; VARIATIONAL ANALYSIS; VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION;

PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84871904801     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00008.1     Document Type: Article

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