Ensemble experiments using a nested LETKF system to reproduce intense vortices associated with tornadoes of 6 May 2012 in Japan

Progress in Earth and Planetary Science

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Seko, Hiromu ^a,b   Kunii, Masaru ^a   Yokota, Sho ^a   Tsuyuki, Tadashi ^a,d   Miyoshi, Takemasa ^c  

^a JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c RIKEN Center for Computational Science   (Japan)

^d METEOROLOGICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ensemble forecast; LETKF; Tornadoes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986306417     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21974284     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40645-015-0072-3     Document Type: Article

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