Impact of Multivariate Background Error Covariance on the WRF-3DVAR Assimilation for the Yellow Sea Fog Modeling

Figure 7

Comparison between the forecasted and observed sea fog areas (upper row; MTSAT visible imageries) for Case-A. The middle and lower rows show the results of Exp-A_CV5 and Exp-A_CV6, respectively. Fog depth is shown by shadings, and surface winds are displayed by vectors.