Inhomogeneous background error modeling for WRF-var using the NMC method

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2287-2309

  Wang, Hongli ^a,e   Huang, Xiang Yu ^a   Sun, Juanzhen ^a   Xu, Dongmei ^b   Zhang, Man ^c   Fan, Shuiyong ^d   Zhong, Jiqin ^d  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d Beijing Meteorological Bureau   (China)

^e Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND ERRORS; DATA ASSIMILATION;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; MODELING; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84907923019     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-13-0281.1     Document Type: Article

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