A comparison between the Local Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter and the Ensemble Square Root Filter for the assimilation of radar data in convective-scale models

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 141, Issue 689, 2015, Pages 1163-1176

  Thompson, Therese E ^a,b   Wicker, Louis J ^b   Wang, Xuguang ^a   Potvin, Corey ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Convective allowing models; Ensemble data assimilation; EnSRF; LETKF; Radar data assimilation

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER RADAR; FORECASTING;

DOPPLER RADAR OBSERVATION; ENSEMBLE DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE SQUARE ROOT FILTER; ENSRF; LETKF; OBSERVING SYSTEM SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; RADAR DATA ASSIMILATION; SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS;

KALMAN FILTERS;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA ASSIMILATION; DOPPLER RADAR; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTER; SATELLITE DATA;

EID: 84932197996     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2423     Document Type: Article

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