Breaking new ground in severe weather prediction: The 2015 NOAA/hazardous weather testbed spring forecasting experiment

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 1541-1568

  Gallo, Burkely T ^a   Clark, Adam J ^b   Jirak, Israel ^c   Kain, John S ^b   Weiss, Steven J ^c   Coniglio, Michael ^b   Knopfmeier, Kent ^a,b   Correia, James ^a,b   Melick, Christopher J ^d   Karstens, Christopher D ^a,b   Iyer, Eswar ^a   Dean, Andrew R ^c   Xue, Ming ^a,e   Kong, Fanyou ^e   Jung, Youngsun ^e   Shen, Feifei ^e   Thomas, Kevin W ^e   Brewster, Keith ^e   Stratman, Derek ^a,e   Carbin, Gregory W ^f   Line, William ^a,c   Adams Selin, Rebecca ^g   Willington, Steve ^h   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^d Air Force Weather Agency   (United States)

^e Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms   (United States)

^f NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^g ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^h MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ensembles; Forecasting techniques; Mesoscale forecasting; Numerical weather prediction forecasting; Operational forecasting; Probability forecasts models distribution

Indexed keywords

CAMS; DECISION MAKING; DIGITAL STORAGE; FORECASTING; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SOFTWARE TESTING; STORMS; TESTBEDS;

ENSEMBLES; FORECASTING TECHNIQUES; MESOSCALE FORECASTING; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION/FORECASTING; OPERATIONAL FORECASTING; PROBABILITY FORECASTS/MODELS/DISTRIBUTION;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NOAA SATELLITE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEVERE WEATHER; WEATHER FORECASTING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 85028998974     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: 15200434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-16-0178.1     Document Type: Article

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