Improvement of the forecast of convective activity from the AROME-France system

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 142, Issue 699, 2016, Pages 2231-2243

  Brousseau, Pierre ^a   Seity, Yann ^a   Ricard, Didier ^a   Léger, Julien ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

1 h assimilation cycle; 3D Var; kilometric horizontal resolution; numerical weather prediction system

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; RADAR MEASUREMENT; RAIN; VALUE ENGINEERING;

1 H ASSIMILATION CYCLE; 3D-VAR; BACKGROUND-ERROR COVARIANCES; GLOBAL DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM; HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL RESOLUTIONS; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; OPERATIONAL CONFIGURATION;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; DATA ASSIMILATION; NUMERICAL METHOD; RADAR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

FRANCE;

EID: 84979630877     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2822     Document Type: Article

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