The impact of mesoscale environmental uncertainty on the prediction of a tornadic supercell storm using ensemble data assimilation approach

Advances in Meteorology

Volumn 2013, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Yussouf, Nusrat ^a,b   Gao, Jidong ^b   Stensrud, David J ^b   Ge, Guoqing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 84888858043     PISSN: 16879309     EISSN: 16879317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2013/731647     Document Type: Article

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