Convective‐scale assimilation of radar data: progress and challenges

J Sun - Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Active research has been carried out in recent years to assimilate high‐resolution
observations into numerical models to improve precipitation forecasting. Considerable …

Improvements in forecasting intense rainfall: Results from the FRANC (Forecasting Rainfall exploiting new data Assimilation techniques and Novel observations of …

SL Dance, SP Ballard, RN Bannister, P Clark, HL Cloke… - Atmosphere, 2019 - mdpi.com
The FRANC project (Forecasting Rainfall exploiting new data Assimilation techniques and
Novel observations of Convection) has researched improvements in numerical weather …

Progress, challenges, and future steps in data assimilation for convection‐permitting numerical weather prediction: Report on the virtual meeting held on 10 and 12 …

G Hu, SL Dance, RN Bannister… - Atmospheric Science …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract In November 2021, the Royal Meteorological Society Data Assimilation (DA)
Special Interest Group and the University of Reading hosted a virtual meeting on the topic of …

Gaussian process approximations of stochastic differential equations

C Archambeau, D Cornford, M Opper… - Gaussian …, 2007 - proceedings.mlr.press
Stochastic differential equations arise naturally in a range of contexts, from financial to
environmental modeling. Current solution methods are limited in their representation of the …

[HTML][HTML] Diagnosing observation error correlations for Doppler radar radial winds in the Met Office UKV model using observation-minus-background and observation …

JA Waller, D Simonin, SL Dance… - Monthly Weather …, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
With the development of convection-permitting numerical weather prediction the efficient use
of high-resolution observations in data assimilation is becoming increasingly important. The …

Doppler radar radial wind assimilation using an hourly cycling 3D‐Var with a 1.5 km resolution version of the Met Office Unified Model for nowcasting

D Simonin, SP Ballard, Z Li - Quarterly Journal of the Royal …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
This article describes the development and trials at the Met Office of the assimilation of radar
Doppler radial winds in a pre‐operational framework. It uses a high‐resolution 1.5 km …

Deep learning improves GFS wintertime precipitation forecast over southeastern China

D Sun, W Huang, Z Yang, Y Luo, J Luo… - Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Wintertime precipitation, especially snowstorms, significantly impacts people's lives.
However, the current forecast skill of wintertime precipitation is still low. Based on data …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of data assimilation length scales on analysis and prediction of convective storms

H Lange, GC Craig - Monthly Weather Review, 2014 - journals.ametsoc.org
The Impact of Data Assimilation Length Scales on Analysis and Prediction of Convective Storms
in: Monthly Weather Review Volume 142 Issue 10 (2014) Jump to Content Jump to Main …

A simple dynamical model of cumulus convection for data assimilation research

M Würsch, GC Craig - Meteorologische Zeitschrift, 2014 - epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de
A simplified model for cumulus convection has been developed, with the aim of providing a
computationally inexpensive, but physically plausible, environment for developing methods …

Comparison of aircraft‐derived observations with in situ research aircraft measurements

AK Mirza, SP Ballard, SL Dance… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Mode Selective Enhanced Surveillance (Mode‐S EHS) reports are aircraft‐based
observations that have value in numerical weather prediction (NWP). These reports contain …