Initial conditions for convective-scale ensemble forecasting provided by ensemble data assimilation

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 143, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1583-1600

  Harnisch, Florian ^a   Keil, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cloud resolving models; Data assimilation; Ensembles; Numerical weather prediction forecasting; Short range prediction

Indexed keywords

WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND;

CLOUD RESOLVING MODEL; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLES; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION/FORECASTING; SHORT-RANGE PREDICTIONS;

FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATE MODELING; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTER; NUMERICAL MODEL; SUMMER;

EID: 84944050906     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-14-00209.1     Document Type: Article

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