Numerical prediction of the 8 may 2003 oklahoma city tornadic supercell and embedded tornado using ARPS with the assimilation of WSR-88D data

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 39-62

  Xue, Ming ^a   Hu, Ming ^a,b   Schenkman, Alexander D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud resolving models; Data assimilation; Mesoscale forecasting; Nonhydrostatic models; Numerical analysis modeling; Numerical weather prediction forecasting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894037860     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: 15200434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-13-00029.1     Document Type: Article

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