Application of the WRF-LETKF data assimilation system over southern South America: Sensitivity to model physics

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 217-236

  Dillon, María E ^a,b   Skabar, Yanina García ^a,c   Ruiz, Juan ^c,d   Kalnay, Eugenia ^e   Collini, Estela A ^f,g   Echevarría, Pablo ^g   Saucedo, Marcos ^c,d   Miyoshi, Takemasa ^h   Kunii, Masaru ⁱ  

^a Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^c UMI IFAECI   (Argentina)

^d Centro de Investigacion del Mar y la Atmosfera   (Argentina)

^e University of Maryland   (United States)

^f Naval Hydrographic Service   (Argentina)

^g National Meteorological Service   (Argentina)

^h RIKEN   (Japan)

ⁱ METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Forecasting; Kalman filters; Mathematical and statistical techniques; Model evaluation performance; Model initialization; Models and modeling; Numerical weather prediction forecasting

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; DATA ACQUISITION; FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTERS; METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODELS; QUALITY CONTROL;

DATA ASSIMILATION; MODEL EVALUATION/PERFORMANCE; MODEL INITIALIZATION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION/FORECASTING; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 84958950240     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: 15200434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-14-00157.1     Document Type: Article

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