Examination of a real-time 3DVAR analysis system in the hazardous weather testbed

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 63-77

  Smith, Travis M ^a   Gao, Jidong ^b   Calhoun, Kristin M ^a   Stensrud, David J ^b   Manross, Kevin L ^a   Ortega, Kiel L ^a   Fu, Chenghao ^a   Kingfield, Darrel M ^a   Elmore, Kimberly L ^a   Lakshmanan, Valliappa ^a   Riedel, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Nowcasting; Radars Radar observations; Severe storms; Supercells

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894036328     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: 15200434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-13-00044.1     Document Type: Article

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