Ensemble kalman filter analyses and forecasts of a severe mesoscale convective system using different choices of microphysics schemes

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 142, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3243-3263

  Wheatley, Dustan M ^a,b   Yussouf, Nusrat ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KALMAN FILTERS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; STORMS;

ENSEMBLE DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; FORECAST PERFORMANCE; MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORIES; STRATIFORM PRECIPITATION; SURFACE OBSERVATION; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84906856110     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-13-00260.1     Document Type: Article

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