WRF-ARW Variational Storm-Scale Data Assimilation: Current Capabilities and Future Developments

The variational radar data assimilation system has been developed and tested for the Advanced Research Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF-ARW) model since 2005. Initial efforts focused on the assimilation of the radar observations in the 3-dimensional variational framework, and recently the effor...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Juanzhen Sun, Hongli Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2013-01-01
Series:Advances in Meteorology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/815910