Cloud-resolving 4D-var assimilation of doppler wind lidar data on a meso-gamma-scale convective system

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 142, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 4484-4498

  Kawabata, Takuya ^a   Iwai, Hironori ^b   Seko, Hiromu ^a   Shoji, Yoshinori ^a   Saito, Kazuo ^a   Ishii, Shoken ^b   Mizutani, Kohei ^b  

^a JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cloud resolving models; Convective clouds; Data assimilation; Mesoscale forecasting; Short range prediction

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER RADAR; EXPERIMENTS; FORECASTING; INVERSION LAYERS; RAIN; STORMS; WATER VAPOR;

CLOUD RESOLVING MODEL; CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; DATA ASSIMILATION; MESOSCALE FORECASTING; SHORT-RANGE PREDICTIONS;

OPTICAL RADAR;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; DATA ASSIMILATION; DOPPLER LIDAR; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; RAINFALL; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND DIRECTION;

EID: 84916204353     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-13-00362.1     Document Type: Article

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