The ensemble kalman filter analyses and forecasts of the 8 may 2003 oklahoma city tornadic supercell storm using single- and double-moment microphysics schemes

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 3388-3412

  Yussouf, Nusrat ^a   Mansell, Edward R ^a   Wicker, Louis J ^a   Wheatley, Dustan M ^a   Stensrud, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Convective storms; Data assimilation; Ensembles; Numerical weather prediction forecasting

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC OBSERVATIONS; CONVECTIVE STORMS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE ADJUSTMENT KALMAN FILTER; ENSEMBLES; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION/FORECASTING; SHORT RANGE ENSEMBLE FORECASTS; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

DATA PROCESSING; KALMAN FILTERS; RESEARCH; STORMS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; RADAR; STORM; SUPERCELL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

OKLAHOMA [OKLAHOMA (STT)]; OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84884941215     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00237.1     Document Type: Article

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