Storm-scale data assimilation and ensemble forecasting with the NSSL Experimental warn-on-forecast system. Part I: Radar data experiments

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1795-1817

  Wheatley, Dustan M ^a   Knopfmeier, Kent H ^a   Jones, Thomas A ^a   Creager, Gerald J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; RADAR; STATISTICS; STORMS; THUNDERSTORMS; TORNADOES; VORTICITY;

DISPLACEMENT ERRORS; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTS; PROBABILISTIC FORECASTS; RADIAL-VELOCITY OBSERVATIONS; SATELLITE DATA ASSIMILATION; SEVERE WEATHER EVENTS; SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTER; RADAR; SEVERE WEATHER; SUPERCELL; THUNDERSTORM; TORNADO;

EID: 84953380545     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: 15200434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-15-0043.1     Document Type: Article

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