Comparison between dual-doppler and EnKF storm-scale wind analyses: The 29-30 May 2004 Geary, Oklahoma, supercell thunderstorm

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1612-1628

  Potvin, Corey K ^a,b   Wicker, Louis J ^b   Biggerstaff, Michael I ^a   Betten, Daniel ^a   Shapiro, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; ERROR CHARACTERISTICS; KINEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MICROPHYSICAL PARAMETERIZATION SCHEMES; OBSERVING SYSTEM SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; RETRIEVAL TECHNIQUES; SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS; VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION;

DATA PROCESSING; DOPPLER RADAR; THUNDERSTORMS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA ASSIMILATION; DOPPLER RADAR; ERROR ANALYSIS; KALMAN FILTER; PARAMETERIZATION; RADAR; SUPERCELL; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; THUNDERSTORM; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; WIND FIELD;

OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84878179292     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00308.1     Document Type: Article

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