Operational implementation of the 1D13D-Var assimilation method of radar reflectivity data in the AROME model

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 142, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1852-1873

  Wattrelot, Eric ^a   Caumont, Olivier ^a   Mahfouf, Jean François ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; EXPERIMENTS; RADAR; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VALUE ENGINEERING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

BACKGROUND-ERROR COVARIANCES; LIMITED AREA MODELS; PRECIPITATION FORECAST; PSEUDO-OBSERVATIONS; RADAR REFLECTIVITIES; SCREENING PROCEDURES; SHORT-TERM FORECASTS; VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION;

REFLECTION;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; FORECASTING METHOD; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADAR; REFLECTIVITY; RELATIVE HUMIDITY;

EID: 84899837110     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-13-00230.1     Document Type: Article

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