Practical and intrinsic predictability of severe and convective weather at the mesoscales

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3350-3371

  Melhauser, Christopher ^a   Zhang, Fuqing ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Convective storms; Short range prediction

Indexed keywords

BOW ECHO EVENT; BOW ECHOES; COLD POOL; CONVECTIVE STORMS; CONVECTIVE VORTICES; CONVECTIVE WEATHER; DEEP CONVECTION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTS; ENSEMBLE SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DIFFERENCE; GLOBAL FORECAST SYSTEMS; INITIAL CONDITIONS; MESO SCALE; OBSERVATION ERRORS; REALISTIC INITIAL CONDITIONS; SEVERE WEATHER; SQUALL LINES; UPPER-LEVEL TROUGH;

EXPERIMENTS; STORMS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; BIFURCATION; CLIMATE PREDICTION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTER; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STORM;

EID: 84872040793     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-11-0315.1     Document Type: Article

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