Forecast evaluation of an observing system simulation experiment assimilating both radar and satellite data

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 142, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 107-124

  Jones, Thomas A ^a   Otkin, Jason A ^b   Stensrud, David J ^a,c   Knopfmeier, Kent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; CORRELATION STATISTICS; FORECAST EVALUATION; OBSERVING SYSTEM SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; RADAR REFLECTIVITIES; RADIAL-VELOCITY OBSERVATIONS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS;

CLOUDS; MOISTURE; RADAR; REFLECTION; SATELLITES; SNOW; WATER VAPOR;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLOUD WATER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SET; RADAR; SATELLITE DATA; WATER VAPOR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84892458638     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-13-00151.1     Document Type: Article

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