Radar Data assimilation with WRF 4D-var. Part I: System development and preliminary testing

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2224-2244

  Wang, Hongli ^a   Sun, Juanzhen ^a   Zhang, Xin ^a   Huang, Xiang Yu ^a   Auligné, Thomas ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND-ERROR COVARIANCES; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; INCREMENTAL FORMULATION; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION FORECASTING; RADAR DATA ASSIMILATION; VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

ERROR STATISTICS; EXPERIMENTS; PARTIAL DISCHARGES; STORMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VALUE ENGINEERING;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; DATA ASSIMILATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADAR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

GREAT PLAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84880706767     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00168.1     Document Type: Article

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