Assimilation of Aircraft Observations in High-Resolution Mesoscale Modeling

Figure 7

Time series of the ME for each experiment for the 1–18 h forecast (19–12 UTC) for the 0–1000 m AGL layer for (a) temperature, (b) dewpoint, (c) wind speed, and (d) wind direction as compared to above-surface observations and calculated over observations from all five case days. The number of observations used to create the verification at each time is noted just above the horizontal axis at the bottom of the plot.

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