TY - GEN KW - NWP KW - lecture notes AU - Jean-Francois Mahmouf AU - P. Viterbo AB -
This lecture note provides a review of techniques recently developed for initialising the prognostic variables of land surface parametrizations in numerical weather prediction models. The importance of soil moisture initialisation is emphasized since the evolution of the boundary layer is very sensitive to its specification and the associated time scales are much longer than those of medium range forecasts. The analysis of snow mass is also described, using the ECMWF method as an illustrative example. Different methods and data available for the initialisation of other slowly varying components at the surface, such as soil temperature, vegetation fraction, leaf area index and albedo, are described at the end.
BT - Meteorological Training Course Lecture Series C1 - Learning DA - 2002 LA - eng N2 -
This lecture note provides a review of techniques recently developed for initialising the prognostic variables of land surface parametrizations in numerical weather prediction models. The importance of soil moisture initialisation is emphasized since the evolution of the boundary layer is very sensitive to its specification and the associated time scales are much longer than those of medium range forecasts. The analysis of snow mass is also described, using the ECMWF method as an illustrative example. Different methods and data available for the initialisation of other slowly varying components at the surface, such as soil temperature, vegetation fraction, leaf area index and albedo, are described at the end.
PB - ECMWF PY - 2002 T2 - Meteorological Training Course Lecture Series TI - Land surface assimilation ER -