Research Article

Effect of Data Assimilation Using WRF-3DVAR for Heavy Rain Prediction on the Northeastern Edge of the Tibetan Plateau

Table 1

Details of the observed data used in the assimilation experiments.

Experiment name Assimilated data

CTRL No data assimilation
DA-OBS NCAR surface and upper-air observation
DA-SAT AMSU-A and AMSU-B radiance data
DA-BOTH NCAR observation and AMSU-A (B) radiance data