Assimilation of wind data from airborne Doppler cloud-profiling radar in a kilometre-scale NWP system

Borderies, Mary; Caumont, Olivier; Delanoë, Julien; Ducrocq, Véronique; Fourrié, Nadia

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-19-821-2019

Articles | Volume 19, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-19-821-2019

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Hydrological cycle in the Mediterranean (ACP/AMT/GMD/HESS/NHESS/OS...

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-19-821-2019

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Articles | Volume 19, issue 4

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17 Apr 2019

Research article |

| 17 Apr 2019

Assimilation of wind data from airborne Doppler cloud-profiling radar in a kilometre-scale NWP system

Mary Borderies, Olivier Caumont, Julien Delanoë, Véronique Ducrocq, and Nadia Fourrié

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Final revised paper (published on 17 Apr 2019)
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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review comments', Anonymous Referee #1, 04 Oct 2018
- AC1: 'Responses to Reviewer 1', Mary Borderies, 24 Jan 2019
RC2: 'Review comments', Anonymous Referee #2, 22 Oct 2018
- AC2: 'Responses to Reviewer 2', Mary Borderies, 24 Jan 2019

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (further review by editor and referees) (26 Jan 2019) by Eric Martin

AR by Mary Borderies on behalf of the Authors (28 Jan 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (02 Feb 2019) by Eric Martin

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (14 Feb 2019)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (16 Feb 2019) by Eric Martin

AR by Mary Borderies on behalf of the Authors (18 Feb 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (02 Mar 2019) by Eric Martin

AR by Mary Borderies on behalf of the Authors (22 Mar 2019) Manuscript

Short summary

The study reports on the impact of the assimilation of wind data from airborne Doppler cloud-profiling radar in a kilometre-scale NWP model on predicting heavy precipitation events in the Mediterranean area. The positive impact of the assimilation of such data is particularly evidenced for a heavy precipitation event and results are slightly encouraging over a 45-day period. In addition, the impact of the length of the assimilation window in a 3h-3DVar assimilation system is investigated.