Quality of the target area for metrics with different nonlinearities in a mesoscale convective system

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 142, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2379-2397

  Huang, Ling ^a   Meng, Zhiyong ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Adaptive models; Data assimilation; Ensembles; Mesoscale systems; Rainfall; Sampling

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; FORECASTING; SAMPLING; STORMS; VORTEX FLOW;

ADAPTIVE MODELS; DATA ASSIMILATION; DETERMINISTIC SCENARIO; ENSEMBLES; MESO-SCALE SYSTEMS; MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; OBSERVING SYSTEM SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; STRONGLY NONLINEAR;

RAIN;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NONLINEARITY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PROBABILITY; RAINFALL; VORTEX; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND PROFILE;

EID: 84905660592     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-13-00244.1     Document Type: Article

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