Development of an efficient regional four-dimensional variational data assimilation system for WRF

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2777-2794

  Zhang, Xin ^a   Huang, Xiang Yu ^a   Liu, Jianyu ^a   Poterjoy, Jonathan ^b   Weng, Yonghui ^b   Zhang, Fuqing ^b   Wang, Hongli ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Numerical weather prediction forecasting; Variational analysis

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COST FUNCTIONS; FORECASTING; HURRICANES; VALUE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTATIONAL PERFORMANCE; DATA ASSIMILATION; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; INCREMENTAL CONFIGURATIONS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION/FORECASTING; VARIATIONAL ANALYSIS; VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ALGORITHM; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA ASSIMILATION; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; HURRICANE EVENT; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84919348107     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: 15200426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-13-00076.1     Document Type: Article

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