Radar data assimilation in the Canadian high-resolution ensemble Kalman filter system: Performance and verification with real summer cases

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 142, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2118-2138

  Chang, Weiguang ^a   Chung, Kao Shen ^a,b   Fillion, Luc ^a,b   Baek, Seung Jong ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Data Assimilation Satellite M   (Canada)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Ensembles; Forecast verification skill; Kalman filters; Radars Radar observations

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTERS;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLES; FORECAST VERIFICATION/SKILL; HORIZONTAL GRID SPACING; PRECIPITATION STRUCTURE; RADAR DATA ASSIMILATION; RADARS/RADAR OBSERVATIONS; STRATIFORM PRECIPITATION;

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; KALMAN FILTER; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RADAR; SQUALL LINE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CANADA; MONTREAL; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 84901596161     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-13-00291.1     Document Type: Article

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