Research Article

Impact of a Diagnostic Pressure Equation Constraint on Tornadic Supercell Thunderstorm Forecasts Initialized Using 3DVAR Radar Data Assimilation

Table 1

List of data assimilation experiments (DP stands for “diagnostic pressure equation”).

Case nameExperiment name DP weighting coefficient

5 May 2007 Greensburg caseNODP10
DP1
DP1d5
DP1m5

8 May 2003 OKC caseNODP20
DP2
DP2d5
DP2m5