Impact of targeted observations on HIRLAM forecasts during HyMeX-SOP1

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 142, Issue , 2016, Pages 363-376

  Campins, Joan ^a   Navascués, Beatriz ^b  

^a Agencia Estatal de Meteorologia   (Spain)

^b Agencia Estatal de Meteorologia   (Spain)

Author keywords

high impact weather events; HIRLAM; HyMeX; observing system experiments; targeted observations

Indexed keywords

SATELLITES; WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

HIRLAM; HYMEX; OBSERVING SYSTEM EXPERIMENTS; TARGETED OBSERVATIONS; WEATHER EVENTS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PREDICTION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 84959287006     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2737     Document Type: Article

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