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

<table class="table-group" id="tab2"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="4"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left">Experiment</td><td class="align_center">Fog case</td><td class="align_center">BE type</td><td class="align_center">Assimilated observations</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="4"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Exp-A_CV5</td><td class="align_center" rowspan="2">Case-A</td><td class="align_center">CV5</td><td class="align_center" rowspan="2">Radiosonde and surface measurements over the southern Korean Peninsula</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Exp-A_CV6</td><td class="align_center">CV6</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Exp-B_CV5</td><td class="align_center" rowspan="4">Case-B</td><td class="align_center">CV5</td><td class="align_center" rowspan="2">Radiosonde and surface measurements</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Exp-B_CV6</td><td class="align_center">CV6</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Exp-B_CV5e</td><td class="align_center">CV5</td><td class="align_center" rowspan="2">Same as Exp-B_CV5/6 but excluding the observations over the southern Korean Peninsula</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Exp-B_CV6e</td><td class="align_center">CV6</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="4"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

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Table 2: Impact of Multivariate Background Error Covariance on the WRF-3DVAR Assimilation for the Yellow Sea Fog Modeling 