@Article{HerdiesCava:2004:DaAsSt,
               author = "Herdies, Dirceu Luis and Cavalcanti, Iracema F. A.",
          affiliation = "{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)}",
                title = "Data Assimilation study using SALLJEX data on a global CPTEC 
                         model",
              journal = "Clivar Exchanges",
                 year = "2004",
               volume = "9",
               number = "1",
                pages = "23--25",
                month = "march",
             keywords = "South America Low-Level Jet Experiment, mesoscale convective 
                         systems.",
             abstract = "A data assimilation study is performed to assessthe impact of 
                         observations on analyses over a usuallydata sparse region. The 
                         study uses radiosonde data takenduring the South America Low-Level 
                         Jet Experiment(SALLJEX) (November 2002-February 2003), which 
                         fo-cused on the region east of the Andes Mountains fromwestern 
                         Brazil southward to central Argentina. This re-gion has a high 
                         frequency of occurrence of a northwest-erly Low-Level Jet (LLJ) 
                         and Mesoscale Convective Sys-tems (MCS). A better understanding of 
                         the vertical andspatial atmospheric structures associated with 
                         these fea-tures is necessary in order to validate existing global 
                         and regional models, and ultimately to improve forecasts and 
                         simulations on a variety of time scales.",
           copyholder = "SID/SCD",
                 issn = "1026-0471",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "Herdies_Cavalcanti_Data.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "16 jun. 2024"
}