An ensemble-based four-dimensional variational data assimilation scheme. part III: Antarctic applications with advanced research WRF using real data

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2721-2739

  Liu, Chengsi ^a   Xiao, Qingnong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND-ERROR COVARIANCES; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; HOMOGENEOUS AND ISOTROPIC; INCREMENTAL APPROACH; OBSERVING SYSTEM SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; VARIATIONAL APPROACHES; VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

ALGORITHMS; DATA PROCESSING; EXPERIMENTS; STORMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ALGORITHM; CYCLONE; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; INFLATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ANTARCTICA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84881289599     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00130.1     Document Type: Article

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